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Teaching Reading Comprehension by Using the Cloze Strategy: The Case of One Islamic Private Junior High School

open access: yesTa'dib, 2020
The aim of this study was to find out whether or not there was a significant difference on students’ reading comprehension achievement between the students who were taught by using Cloze Strategy and those who were taught by using the teacher’s method ...
Meidiana Eka Putri
doaj   +3 more sources

Score Variation in Multiple-Choice Tests of Grammar: On the Effect of Gender and Stem Type [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Applied Linguistics, 2014
This paper examines the effect of gender and type of stem on Iranian test takers’ performance on the grammar section of a nation-wide language proficiency test. In so doing, the scores of 2931 examinees (1107 female and 1824 male) who sat Tarbiat Modares
Mohsen Shirazizadeh, Gholam Reza Kiany
doaj  

Gated-Attention Readers for Text Comprehension

open access: yes, 2017
In this paper we study the problem of answering cloze-style questions over documents. Our model, the Gated-Attention (GA) Reader, integrates a multi-hop architecture with a novel attention mechanism, which is based on multiplicative interactions between ...
Cohen, William W.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Modulation of Predictive Coding in Auditory Paradigms of Varying Complexity in Children With Developmental Language Disorder

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Neuroscience, Volume 63, Issue 8, April 2026.
Event‐related potentials elicited in children with specific language impairment (SLI) and typically developing (controls), averaged across the F3, F4, Fz, C3, C4, and Cz electrodes. The upper panel displays the comparison between first‐ and second‐order complexity paradigms, averaging standard and deviant trials, with the baseline established previous ...
Francisco J. Ruiz‐Martínez   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Readability Ease of Online Hearing-Related Information in Hindi

open access: yesJournal of Indian Speech Language & Hearing Association, 2018
Introduction The purpose of this study was to assess the readability of hearing-related Internet information in Hindi language. Methods Native Hindi speakers identified five Hindi keywords relating to hearing problems that were used to search for hearing-
Seema Diwan, Rebecca J. Kelly Campbell
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Late Positive Potentials as an Index of “Desirably Difficult” Learning Processes Engaged During Language Comprehension: ERP Evidence From Studies of Domain Knowledge

open access: yesPsychophysiology, Volume 63, Issue 4, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Electrophysiological studies of language comprehension have primarily examined the kind of information that comes to mind, and when, as people process words and build message‐level understanding. However, less is known about the factors that allow people to commit the message‐level information to memory for future use.
Melissa Troyer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Event Representations with Tensor-based Compositions

open access: yes, 2017
Robust and flexible event representations are important to many core areas in language understanding. Scripts were proposed early on as a way of representing sequences of events for such understanding, and has recently attracted renewed attention ...
Balasubramanian, Niranjan   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Effects of Lexical Frequency in Predictive Processing: Higher Frequency Boosts First Language Speed and Facilitates Second Language Prediction

open access: yesLanguage Learning, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 249-279, March 2026.
Abstract This study explores how word frequency affects verb‐mediated prediction in L1 and L2 speakers, using a visual‐world eye‐tracking task. By manipulating frequency of nouns within subjects (higher; lower) and type of verbs used as predictive cues (semantically restrictive; neutral) in sentences (e.g., The {doctor/surgeon} {opened/moved} the box),
Haerim Hwang, Kitaek Kim
wiley   +1 more source

CLOZE PASSAGE IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION

open access: yesEltin Journal, 2017
Using an effective practice of comprehending English text is another effort to improve reading comprehension of EFL students, especially the Indonesian students.
Yanuarti Apsari
doaj  

Relação entre consciência morfológica e leitura contextual medida pelo teste de Cloze The relationship between morphological awareness and contextual reading measured by the Cloze test

open access: yesPsicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2009
Consciência morfológica é a habilidade de refletir sobre os morfemas que compõem as palavras. Esta habilidade está associada à leitura e escrita e parece ser particularmente importante para compreensão de texto e leitura contextual, visto que além das ...
Márcia Maria Peruzzi Elia da Mota   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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