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Linguistically-driven text formatting improves reading comprehension for ELLs and EL1s
Typical print formatting provides no information regarding the linguistic features of a text, although texts vary considerably with respect to...
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Does students’ exposure to websites moderate the positive relationship between print exposure and text comprehension?
In this study, I investigated the print exposure and website exposure of undergraduates in relation to their scores on a text comprehension test....
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Vocabulary, text coverage, word frequency and the lexical threshold in elementary school reading comprehension
Vocabulary knowledge is one of the most important elements of reading comprehension. Text coverage is the proportion of known words in a given text....
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Emotional understanding in reading comprehension at the text, task, and reader levels: a comparison of diverse struggling readers
According to the multidimensional view of reading comprehension (RAND), reading comprehension (RC) is influenced by three components: the reader,...
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Precursors of reading text comprehension from paper and screen in first graders: a longitudinal study
Research on text comprehension in relation to the reading medium (paper or screen) has mainly involved undergraduate or high school students. To...
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Impact of text-to-speech features on the reading comprehension of children with reading and language difficulties
This study investigated the reading comprehension scores of students with reading and language difficulties after reading a passage with and without...
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Effects of an executive function-based text support on strategy use and comprehension–integration of conflicting informational texts
Executive functions (EF) have been theoretically implicated in multiple text comprehension. Yet, the contributions of EFs to comprehension and...
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Morphological density and reading comprehension in Hebrew novice readers
Hebrew allows the representation of the meaning of a few words in one dense form by using bound morphemes that linearly attach to the word. By...
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Effects of searching for rhetorical relations on university-level text comprehension in L2
Establishing relations between concepts and ideas is vital for university-level reading. However, students often understand expository text only...
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Punctuation: a missing link between awareness of prosody and reading comprehension
There is growing theoretical and empirical consensus for a role of awareness of suprasegmental phonology, also known as prosody, or the rhythmic...
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Influences of individual, text, and assessment factors on text/discourse comprehension in oral language (listening comprehension)
We investigated the contributions of multiple strands of factors—individual characteristics (struggling reader status, working memory, vocabulary,...
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Eye movements and reading comprehension performance: examining the relationships among test format, working memory capacity and reading comprehension
The ability to form a mental model of a text is an essential component of successful reading comprehension (RC), and purpose for reading can...
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What do upper-elementary and middle school teachers know about the processes of text comprehension?
Teachers’ knowledge of reading comprehension processes is underresearched relative to teachers’ knowledge of word identification and phonological...
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Spanish adaptation of a cloze procedure to assess reading comprehension beyond the sentence level
The Hybrid Text Comprehension cloze (HyTeC-cloze) (Kleijn et al. Lang Test 36:553–572, 2019) is a procedure developed for the Dutch language that has...
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Gaining a deeper understanding of the deep cloze reading comprehension test: examining potential contributors and consequences
The deep cloze test was developed by Jensen and Elbro (Read Writ Interdiscip J 35(5):1221–1237, 2022.
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Comprehension Problems
The studies on comprehension problems carried out within the framework of this project (Lehtinen, 2012; Wiklund, 2016; Wiklund & Laakso, 2019, 2020)...
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Predictors and outcomes of behavioral engagement in the context of text comprehension: when quantity means quality
Using a path analytic approach with a sample of Norwegian undergraduate readers, we investigated the effects of behavioral engagement on text...
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Reading-impaired children improve through text-fading training: analyses of comprehension, orthographic knowledge, and RAN
Early intervention for children with reading impairments is crucial in order to achieve reading improvements and avoid school failure. One line of...
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Does the reading acceleration program improve reading fluency and comprehension in emergent bilingual children?
It has been suggested that the reading acceleration program (RAP) (Breznitz et al. in Nature Communications 4: 1486, 2013), in which participants are...
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Exploring the relation between the structure strategy and source attention in single expository text comprehension: a cross-sectional study in secondary education
Organisational signals and sources can be considered metatextual cues that guide the processing of the discourse. Organisational signals encourage...