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From corpus-based collocation frequencies to readability measure [PDF]
, 2006 This paper provides a broad overview of three separate but related areas of research. Firstly, corpus linguistics is a growing discipline that applies analytical results from large language corpora to a wide variety of problems in linguistics and related
Anagnostou, N.K., Weir, G.R.S.
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The contributions of individual oral language skills to kindergarten students' reading comprehension
Journal of Research in Reading, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 355-373, November 2025.Background Research has demonstrated that distinct oral language skills contribute unique variance to text comprehension in students from second grade onward. This study examined these relationships for kindergarten students whose comprehension is often assumed to be determined by word decoding skills.
Jamie L. Metsala +2 more
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TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION BY APPLYING CLOZE PROCEDURE TECHNIQUE
Getsempena English Education Journal, 2016 This research is intended to investigate the effect of cloze procedure technique application in teaching reading comprehension to the eleventh grade students of Senior High School (SMA) Negeri 8 Banda Aceh.
Suryani Suryani
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Dynamic Entity Representations in Neural Language Models
, 2017 Understanding a long document requires tracking how entities are introduced and evolve over time. We present a new type of language model, EntityNLM, that can explicitly model entities, dynamically update their representations, and contextually generate ...
Choi, Yejin +4 more
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Revista Catarinense da Ciência Contábil, 2019 This paper aims to identify the reading habit contribution of accounting students for their professional improvement as an accountant using Cloze test (Taylor, 1953) and reading functions scale (Greaney & Neuman, 1990).
Deborah Maria de Sousa Nascimento +2 more
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Chinese Verb Frames in Primary Education: From Basic Communication to Cognitive Complexity
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 2301-2316, November 2025.ABSTRACT This article investigates text complexity in Chinese‐language textbooks for primary school students (Grades 1 to 6) in Hong Kong. Our analysis, based on verb frames in Mandarin VerbNet, shows a developmental shift in the linguistic input in first language (L1) education: Students begin with a focus on core frame elements in lower grades and ...
Tianyuan Cai +2 more
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Motivación para leer y comprensión lectora de estudiantes brasileños
Educatio Siglo XXI, 2014 La motivación para leer y la comprensión lectora son factores esenciales para mantener el éxito escolar de los estudiantes y para afianzar su realización personal y profesional en sociedad.
Maria Aparecida Mezzalira +1 more
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Validating the construct of readability in EFL contexts: A proposal for criteria
Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2019 This article examines how English as a foreign language learners might be better matched to reading texts using automatic readability analysis. Specifically, I examine how the lexical decoding component of readability might be validated.
Geoffrey G. Pinchbeck
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RACE: Large-scale ReAding Comprehension Dataset From Examinations
, 2017 We present RACE, a new dataset for benchmark evaluation of methods in the reading comprehension task. Collected from the English exams for middle and high school Chinese students in the age range between 12 to 18, RACE consists of near 28,000 passages ...
Hovy, Eduard +4 more
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Focus on form tasks and the provision of corrective feedback [PDF]
Ibérica, 2006 This paper examines how different tasks may provide learners with opportunities to produce output collaboratively (Swain 8 Lapkin, 1997) and receive teacher's feedback.
Patricia Salazar Campillo
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