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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"text comprehension"”.
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Schema theory, attitudes and text comprehension
… on AIDS, then completed an immediate reading . comprehension test or a placebo task; in a third session, all students completed a delayed reading comprehension test. Separate ANCOVAs were conducted for the immediate and delayed tests of comprehension. On both the immediate and delayed tests, …
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Structure and access : the role of structural factors in text comprehension and information
… an important role in facilitating the access, comprehension, and recall of textual information, especially when the content of the material is unfamiliar to the reader. A study was made of the effects of manipulating text structure, familiarity of subjects with the text type, familiarity with …
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Text Comprehension: The Parameters of Difficulty in Narrative and Expository Prose Texts: A Redefinition of Readability
… of this study is to define the parameters of text and reader variables that effect comprehension in order to redefine readability. Eight different short and well-written texts were used. They were presented in an international reading assessment project, administered by the Interna
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Vocabulary comprehension of advanced ESL learners in academic reading: A collective case study
This study explored ESL speakers' vocabulary comprehension of unfamiliar words. The researcher examined the ways the participants dealt with unfamiliar vocabulary, factors that influenced their vocabulary comprehension strategies, and word retention rates. For data collection, the participants' …
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Effekte simultanen Hörens und Lesens auf das L2-Lesen : eine Eyetracking-Studie im Bereich Deutsch als Fremdsprache
… and reading on visual information processing, text comprehension, and memory performance of Chinese participants on an advanced level of German as a foreign language (L2) when reading German literary texts. Two conditions were compared: reading (R) and simultaneous listening and reading (LR). I …
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Valuazione automatica della complessità di frasi in Italiano e Inglese tramite Deep Learning.
… society, the capability of comprehending a text is crucial to promote processes such as the social integration of individuals, the improvement of the personal capital, and the personal independence. Although the importance of literacy skills, the current panorama of linguistic proficiency is …
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The use of text structure among EFL Thai students and its effects on their reading comprehension
… of the interactive theoretical model of comprehension and learning, this study investigated the use of text structure among EFL Thai students and its effects on their reading comprehension. It was designed with an underlying assumption that readers who possess the previously acquired …
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Improving Children's Engagement and Learning Through Free -Flowing Discussions: Impact of Collaborative Reasoning Discussion
… differ significantly in their performance on text comprehension as assessed in a sentence recognition paradigm. However, children in both Collaborative Reasoning Discussion condition and Conventional Discussion condition outperformed children in the No Discussion condition in the quality of …
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The Effect of Exposure Frequency and Reading Comprehension on Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition and Retention Through Reading for Learners of German as a Foreign Language
… are moderately to strongly related to learners' text comprehension. It was further found that two or four exposures resulted in fairly similar vocabulary gain but that six exposures produced higher vocabulary gains. Although subjects who had been exposed to the target words in text retained …
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Augmenting Transformers for Open Domain Procedural Text Comprehesion
… models, we examine the task of procedural text comprehension using neuro-symbolic techniques. We use this task as a testbed for exploring the limitations of state-of-the-art systems such as GPT on the task of predicting the resulting state changes from the text description of a procedure. …
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Strategic training in the use of causal diagrams: Facilitation of superior mental models
… of causal diagrams and their role in text learning. A causal diagram is an instructional adjunct designed to enhance text comprehension by providing a visual representation integrating elements of cause and effect. The Integrated Model of Text and Picture Comprehension (IMTPC) (Schnotz …
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Aphasia Friendly Medication Instructions: Effects on Comprehension in Persons with and without Aphasia
… conditions and is frequently presented via text. Comprehension of written health information becomes more difficult for people with language impairments, such as aphasia. Nine people with aphasia (PWA) and nine people without aphasia (PWoA), participated in this study. Each participant …
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The Role of Grammatical Word Class in Second Language Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition Through Reading
… interaction occurred between the variables of text type and the target words' grammatical class. Learners acquired grammatical class for significantly more nouns in one text, and for significantly more verbs in the other text. The interface between text and grammatical class may have positively …
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A temporal analysis of natural language narrative text
Written English texts in the form of narratives often describe events that occur in definite chronological sequence. Understanding the concept of time in such texts is an essential aspect of text comprehension and forms the basis for answering time related questions pertaining to the source text. …
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Health literacy and older adults' comprehension of multimedia health information
… patients’ ability to comprehend health-related texts that could otherwise inform self-care behavior. Chronically ill older adults, who are the individuals who most need self-care information, are also those less likely to have the literacy skills and cognitive resources required to comprehend …
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Developing First Year ESL Undergraduates’ Source-based Writing Skills
… particularly their difficulties with multiple text comprehension, textual borrowing, and source attribution. This thesis concludes with a discussion of the implications on academic writing pedagogies and institutional-level support for academic writing.
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Idiom Comprehension In Bilingual And Monolingual Adolescents
… the linguistic underpinnings of Latino students' text comprehension. A positive relationship appears to exist between idiom comprehension and academic achievement, as well as idiom comprehension and reading comprehension, in typically developing, monolingual adolescents. Since reading …
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WHAT IS IT THAT YOU KNOW WHEN "YOU KNOW"? COMPREHENSION GOALS AND COMPREHENSION MISMATCHES IN COLLEGE STUDENTS (STUDY BEHAVIORS, METACOMPREHENSION, TEST TAKING)
… of the present research was to investigate the comprehension mismatch experience as it related to students' comprehension goals and testing experiences. In Study 1, subjects reported their reading-related comprehension goals while studying a 3500-word text. A questionnaire was administered …
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Information extraction from text for deep domain knowledge graph population. Extracting pre-clinical outcomes in the domain of spinal cord injury
… of structure prediction and model-complete text comprehension. We further identify domain specific challenges, and provide adapted solutions. We show how to efficiently evaluate complex nested structures predicted by our system and present a comprehensive evaluation to understand the extent …
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Self-efficacy and allocation of effort during reading among older and younger adults
… relationship between age, self-efficacy beliefs, text difficulty, resource allocation to text comprehension processes, and memory for text. 82 younger adults and 74 older adults completed the Metamemory in Adulthood Questionnaire (MIA; Dixon, Hultsch & Hertzog, 1988), Reading Self-Efficacy …
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