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An Exploration of the Use of Musical Activities to Promote Foundational Literacy Competencies for Children Aged 3–5 Years

The Reading Teacher, Volume 80, Issue 1, July/August 2026.
ABSTRACT Research into the process of becoming literate mainly focuses on the teaching of the alphabetic principle as a starting point upon school entry. However, experiences, knowledge, and skills prior to this point may determine future success.
Maria Kay
wiley   +1 more source

Word Predictability in Portuguese

Cadernos de Linguística
With the rise of large language models (LLM), there has been deemed a possible alternative to human participants in many scientific domains, including linguistic studies, the cloze study.
Jane Aristia
doaj   +1 more source

Cloze validation against IELTS Reading Paper: Doubts on correlational validation [PDF]

Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning, 2010
Cloze was officially introduced in a journal on Journalism as a technique for estimating text readability and as "a new psychological tool for measuring the effectiveness of communication" (Taylor, 1953: 415). Different varieties of cloze have since been
Karim Sadeghi
doaj  

Factual open cloze question generation for assessment of learner’s knowledge

International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2017
Factual objective type questions are effectively used in active learning, information and communication technology based education and intelligent tutoring system for the assessment of learner’s content knowledge.
Bidyut Das, Mukta Majumder
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Eye Movements, Item Modality, and Multimodal Second Language Vocabulary Learning: Processing and Outcomes

Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 528-564, June 2026.
Abstract This study examined second language vocabulary processing and learning in reading only (RO) versus reading while listening (RWL). 119 English learners read or read‐while‐listening to a story embedded with 25 pseudowords, 10 times each, and had their eye movements tracked.
Jonathan Malone, Bronson Hui, Nick Pandža, Tetiana Tytko   +3 more
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Revisiting Text Readability and Processing Effort in Second Language Reading: Bayesian Analysis of Eye‐Tracking Data

Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 671-703, June 2026.
Abstract Studies have explored the relationship between text readability and processing effort in second language (L2) reading—as evidenced by eye movements. However, these studies generally relied on short texts, raising concerns about the validity of the analyzed data. This study reexamined these relationships using open‐source eye‐tracking data from
Shingo Nahatame, Kazuhiro Yamaguchi
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Developing L2 semantic knowledge of English modality through concept‐based language instruction: Do cognitive linguistics materials have an advantage?

The Modern Language Journal, Volume 110, Issue 2, Page 540-567, Summer 2026.
Abstract This study investigates the pedagogical impact of integrating cognitive linguistics (CL) into concept‐based language instruction (C‐BLI) for teaching English modal verbs. Eighty‐nine Mandarin‐speaking university learners were assigned to one of three instructional conditions: C‐BLI with CL‐based conceptualizations (C‐BLI‐CL), C‐BLI with non‐CL
Helen Zhao, James P. Lantolf
wiley   +1 more source

Avaliação e desenvolvimento da compreensão em leitura no ensino fundamental Assessment and development of reading comprehension with elementary school students

Psico-USF, 2010
O trabalho teve como objetivo investigar a adequação da técnica de Cloze para a avaliação e o desenvolvimento da compreensão em leitura. A primeira etapa foi realizada com 314 alunos de 2ª a 4ª séries do ensino fundamental e os resultados indicaram que o
Acácia Aparecida Angeli dos Santos, Evelin Zago de Oliveira   +1 more
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The neural processing of the interaction between accentuation and lexical prediction during spoken sentence comprehension

Language and Cognition
Language comprehension requires integration of multiple cues, but the underlying mechanisms of how accentuation, as a significant prosodic feature, influences the processing of words with different levels of cloze probability remains unclear.
Yan Yuan, Zhiren Zheng, Yu-Fu Chien, Chunhai Gao, Weijun Li   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Interdependence between the Process and the Product of Reading in English and Persian [PDF]

Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2004
The aim of the present research was twofold. First, to investigate whether Persian reading skills contribute differentially to English reading performance depending upon amount of exposure to the second language.
parviz birjandi
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