ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book investigates cultural understanding in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) reading among college students, prospective teachers and translators of English in their early twenties at Universidad Nacional de La Plata in Argentina, and the data were collected in 2009-2010. It foregrounds the importance of image and emotion schemata within the cultural dimension of reading and highlights the difficulty and complexity of the imaginative and emotional dimension as well as the need for further research in these areas. The visual representations that the participants produced show the simplicity and power of visual imagery in capturing the cultural in reading. The book concerns to overcome the strong dichotomy product vs. process usually observed in the investigation of reading comprehension. It shows that the reading response and visual representation tasks encouraged participants to transform the prompt texts in multiple and varied ways.
