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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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Crowdsourcing Multiple Choice Science Questions
, 2017 We present a novel method for obtaining high-quality, domain-targeted multiple choice questions from crowd workers. Generating these questions can be difficult without trading away originality, relevance or diversity in the answer options.
Gardner, Matt +2 more
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English as a Heritage Language in Japan: Writing Development From Late Childhood to Adolescence
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 1, January/February/March 2026.Bilingual children and adolescents can develop strong writing skills in their heritage language. In a three‐year study of Japanese–English bilinguals in Japan, English writing scores matched or exceeded those of same‐age U.S. peers and improved each year. Writing development was supported by both home literacy practices and weekend schools.
Janice Nakamura, Suzanne Quay
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Event Representations for Automated Story Generation with Deep Neural Nets
, 2017 Automated story generation is the problem of automatically selecting a sequence of events, actions, or words that can be told as a story. We seek to develop a system that can generate stories by learning everything it needs to know from textual story ...
Ammanabrolu, Prithviraj +6 more
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LSDSem 2017 Shared Task: The Story Cloze Test
LSDSem@EACL, 2017 The LSDSem’17 shared task is the Story Cloze Test, a new evaluation for story understanding and script learning. This test provides a system with a four-sentence story and two possible endings, and the system must choose the correct ending to the story ...
N. Mostafazadeh +4 more
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Psychophysiology, Volume 63, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT Understanding speech in background music is a common real‐world challenge, particularly when vocals compete for linguistic processing resources. This study examined how the presence and intelligibility of sung lyrics influence semantic processing in autistic and nonautistic adults.
Jiayin Li +4 more
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Text Understanding with the Attention Sum Reader Network
, 2016 Several large cloze-style context-question-answer datasets have been introduced recently: the CNN and Daily Mail news data and the Children's Book Test. Thanks to the size of these datasets, the associated text comprehension task is well suited for deep ...
Bajgar, Ondrej +3 more
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Further Exploration of the Fluency Corpus of Academic English Lectures: The Profile of Repetitions
TESOL Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 2326-2341, December 2025.Abstract In assessment contexts, the domain definition inference requires accurate documentation of linguistic demands in a specific target domain for precise measurement. The present study examines several aspects of repetitions in academic lecture settings to offer the domain definition inference for academic listening tests.
Hitoshi Nishizawa
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Language and CognitionLanguage 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 +4 more
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Working Papers em Linguística, 2014 O objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar resultados parciais de uma pesquisa de mestrado em que foi avaliada a compreensão de leitura em língua inglesa de 69 mestrandos da área de saúde por meio de um teste cloze de múltipla escolha.
Fernanda Goulart Ritti Dias +1 more
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