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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Inference generation"”.
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Inference Generation and Reading Disability
This thesis investigated on-line inference generation in 7 to 10-year-old children. Using the Simple View of Reading (Gough & Tunmer, 1986) as a framework to classify reading disability, poor comprehenders and poor decoders were compared with chronological age-matched typical readers. In …
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The development of real-world and counterfactual-world inference generation abilities during adolescence
… school (Department for Education, 2015a; 2015b). Inference generation abilities are at the core of skilled models of comprehension (e.g. Kintsch, 1988; Zwaan, 2003). However, previous research exploring the development of inference generation abilities typically compares a child group (9years or …
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Predictive inference generation in the cerebral hemispheres: An investigation of time course and reader goals
… not explicitly stated to make connections (i.e., inferences) about what is occurring in a text. Readers often make connections between events in a text and their background knowledge by generating expectations about what will occur next (i.e., generating a predictive inference). Although …
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The effects of questioning during and after reading on inference generation between skilled and less-skilled comprehenders.
… was to examine cognitive factors, specifically inference generation, during and after reading between skilled and less-skilled comprehenders. Additionally, other cognitive factors may influence skilled and less-skilled comprehenders' inference generation, and working memory (WM) may be a …
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The effects of an inference instruction intervention on the inference generation and reading comprehension of struggling readers in grades 6 and 7
There is ample evidence that inference generation skill directly contributes to reading comprehension, as well as evidence that struggling readers make fewer inferences than proficient readers. This experimental study examined the effectiveness of a small-group inference instruction intervention on …
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Emerging Readers and Inferential Comprehension with Wordless Narrative Picturebooks: An intervention study
Inference generation is a process that is key to successful reading (e.g., Bowyer- Crane and Snowling, 2005; Oakhill and Cain, 2012) and that begins to develop early in the reading acquisition process, through listening comprehension (e.g., Kendeou et al., 2009). Despite being able to generate …
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Connectives and Causal Relatedness in Expository Text
… encourage elaborative processing and online generation of bridging inferences, particularly in the moderately to low causally related sentence pairs. This was predicted because past research has noted causal connectives capacity to elicit generation of inferences online. Connectives were not …
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A Cost-Effective Semi-Automated Approach for Comprehensive Event Extraction
… events that could simplify the analytical and inference generation processes for an analyst. We particularly aim to develop visualizations that would allow analysts can perform macro and micro level analysis of significant societal events.
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Text-Picture Integration during Inferential Processing by L1 and L2 English and Chinese Speakers: Individual Differences and Script Effects
Much research has demonstrated that inference processing is critical to understanding verbal narratives. In recent years, empirical studies have offered evidence that inference generation is also crucial to visual narrative comprehension. Given the similarities between verbal and visual narratives, …