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Item ‘Yuk, the Skin of Insects!’ Tracking Sources of Errors in Second Language Reading Comprehension(COPYRIGHT 1998 College Reading and Learning Association [BREAK]This article is reproduced with permission. Further reproduction of this article in violation of the copyright is prohibited., 1998) Upton, Thomas A. (Thomas Albin)Readers for whom English is a second language often misinterpret texts. One source for such errors is failing to accurately recognize phonemic and graphemic features, leading to interpreting a text within a framework not intended by the author. Teachers can help second language readers become more perceptive by preparing students for the material and providing practice in recognizing the text's syntactic connections.