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Reading comprehension and listening comprehension in children: An individual differences investigation
Little research has explored listening comprehension in children whereas reading comprehension has been extensively investigated. One of the reasons for this is that listening comprehension and reading comprehension are highly correlated and it is generally assumed that they draw on the same …
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A study of the relationships between oral comprehension and silent reading comprehension
… study is to compare the relationship between the comprehension levels of a student's silent reading level to their oral comprehension level when a passage is read to them. It will also address the theory that reading is a visual symbol system superimposed on auditory language. Theorists state that …
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Program Comprehension Through Sonification
Background: Comprehension of computer programs is daunting, thanks in part to clutter in the software developer's visual environment and the need for frequent visual context changes. Non-speech sound has been shown to be useful in understanding the behavior of a program as it is running. Aims: This …
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Middle School Reading Comprehension
… evaluate strategies for middle school reading comprehension. More often than not, middle school students are placed into reading programs and expected to keep up with their grade level peers. Middle school students come to school with very different reading abilities. Past instruction and early …
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THE EFFECTS OF READER CHARACTERISTICS, TEXT FEATURES, AND COMPREHENSION PROCESSES ON READING COMPREHENSION
… project was to improve understanding of reading comprehension and the role of reader characteristics, passage features, and comprehension processes in understanding text through the application of explanatory item response models. Participants were 1,190 students from 11 to 20 years recruited …
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The Effects of Reciprocal Teaching Comprehension-monitoring Strategy on 3Rd Grade Students' Reading Comprehension.
Reciprocal teaching comprehension-monitoring is a reading comprehension instructional procedure that combines four instructional strategies: predicting, summarizing, questioning, and clarifying to enhance students' comprehension of text. The procedure is a dialogue between the teacher and the …
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The Effectiveness of Explicit Storybook Comprehension Instruction for Improving Preschool Children’s Narrative Comprehension Skills
… book reading to facilitate children’s story comprehension abilities. To close this gap, the present study examined the effectiveness of implementing explicit storybook comprehension instruction in a single-case study with seven preschool-age participants. Using a combined repeated acquisition …
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The Effect of Explicit Teaching of Comprehension Strategies on Reading Comprehension in Elementary School
… investigated the effect of explicit teaching of comprehension strategies on the comprehension performance of elementary school students. Two schools with similar demographics, including a significant proportion of students at risk for reading failure, participated in the study. One school …
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Computational modeling of discourse comprehension
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Memory limitations in sentence comprehension
… difficulty. Results from five different sentence comprehension experiments were used to evaluate the model's assumptions about memory limitations. The predictions of the complexity metric were compared to the locality (integration and storage) cost metric of Dependency Locality Theory (Gibson, …
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Software comprehension : theory and metrics
… maintainability to name a few. The process of comprehension has been studied by psychologists. Their findings have implications for software engineering practises. A survey of pertinent studies in memory usage and comprehension processes reveals motivators for good software engineering …
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Some comprehension problems in kindergarten
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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Neurobiology of incremental speech comprehension
… processes occur very rapidly during speech comprehension, it is crucial to keep track of the temporal dynamics of the neural computations involved. To do this, I used combined electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography (EMEG) to record neural activity with millisecond resolution and …
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Coreference processing during sentence comprehension
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1988.
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Retrieval mechanisms in sentence comprehension
… of the memory mechanisms utilized in language comprehension. Through the use of the Speed Accuracy Tradeoff (SAT) paradigm (Wickelgren, 1977), healthy young adults were studied for the use of parallel or serial search mechanisms to understand syntactically complex sentences with multiple …
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Dialogic Pedagogy and Reading Comprehension: Examining the Effect of Dialogic Support on Reading Comprehension for Adolescents
The reading comprehension scores of students in secondary education have been stagnant since the collection of national statistics on reading comprehension began (National Assessment on Educational Progress [NAEP], 2015, 2017, 2019). This study explored the effect of providing dialogic and thematic …
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Reading comprehension in pediatric focal epilepsy
… for by impaired cognition. Although reading comprehension is a particular area of weakness for children with epilepsy, little is known regarding differential impact of focal seizure activity within reading-specific neural networks and contribution of well-known reading support processes, …
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Extra-Linguistic Factors in Langauge Comprehension
… as accent, personality affects both language comprehension and production (Oberlander & Gill, 2004; Van den Brink et al., 2012). However, research in this area primarily focuses on offline measures. Online measures, such as EEG or pupillometry, have not been included until recently. …
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Increasing Reading Comprehension Through Socratic Seminars
… improve students’ critical thinking and reading comprehension skills. This strategy supports comprehension by encouraging students to answer textual-based questions with textual evidence and engage in providing multiple perspectives with their peers. Using a concurrent multiple baseline design …
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Software Analytics for Improving Program Comprehension
Program comprehension is an essential part of software development and maintenance. Traditional methods of program comprehension, such as reviewing the codebase and documentation, are still challenging for understanding the software's overall structure and implementation. In recent years, software …
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