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An exploratory comparison of the inferential ability of EFL and ESL students : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Management at Massey University [PDF]
, 2003 The ability to access and interpret information is a very important component in generating knowledge. However, people are not always able to discover information, quickly evaluate the importance of the information and access it (Tichenor, Donohue ...
Zhang, Weidong
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Implicit Argument Prediction as Reading Comprehension
, 2018 Implicit arguments, which cannot be detected solely through syntactic cues, make it harder to extract predicate-argument tuples. We present a new model for implicit argument prediction that draws on reading comprehension, casting the predicate-argument ...
Cheng, Pengxiang, Erk, Katrin
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the types of scaffolding strategies employed by elementary teachers during read aloud sessions, with a specific focus on emergent bilingual students. Through a multi‐site explanatory case study involving 14 elementary teachers across four districts, we analyzed the frequency and quality of scaffold use, categorizing ...
Qingli Lei +2 more
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Who did What: A Large-Scale Person-Centered Cloze Dataset
, 2016 We have constructed a new "Who-did-What" dataset of over 200,000 fill-in-the-gap (cloze) multiple choice reading comprehension problems constructed from the LDC English Gigaword newswire corpus. The WDW dataset has a variety of novel features.
Bansal, Mohit +4 more
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How Do They Feel? Processing Others’ Emotions in Second Language Discourse
Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Emotion that is implied rather than literally expressed requires the processing of literal and pragmatic information. Processing multiple information types is an easy, fast process in the first language (L1) but can be costlier in a second language (L2), especially when emotional content is involved.
Andrea González‐García Aldariz +2 more
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Psicologia em Estudo, 2004 Este trabalho avaliou a compreensão em leitura de universitários e sua relação com o desempenho na prova de língua portuguesa no vestibular e o rendimento médio no primeiro ano.
Maria José Moraes da Silva +1 more
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A shift in cloze procedure usage: A new tool for activating ZPD
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020 Of significant challenges encountered in the field of Foreign Language Acquisition (FLA) is finding efficient procedures to make learning more promising, and at the same time, independent.
Parviz Ajideh +2 more
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Incorporating Structured Commonsense Knowledge in Story Completion
, 2018 The ability to select an appropriate story ending is the first step towards perfect narrative comprehension. Story ending prediction requires not only the explicit clues within the context, but also the implicit knowledge (such as commonsense) to ...
Chen, Jiaao, Chen, Jianshu, Yu, Zhou
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigated which type of Mandarin Chinese relative clause (RC)—subject‐extracted relative clause (SRC) or object‐extracted relative clause (ORC)—imposes greater processing demands on second language (L2) learners’ production. Sixty‐two native (L1) Mandarin speakers and 72 L1 Korean learners of Mandarin participated in a picture ...
Deran Kong, Sun‐A Kim, Jeong‐Ah Shin
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The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.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
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