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Measure for Measure: A Critical Consumers' Guide to Reading Comprehension Assessments for Adolescents [PDF]
, 2009 A companion report to Carnegie's Time to Act, analyzes and rates commonly used reading comprehension tests for various elements and purposes.
Catherine Snow +2 more
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TESOL Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 2035-2060, December 2025.Abstract This study examined if gaze‐contingent textual enhancement could be used as an interactive focus‐on‐form device to promote learning of second language (L2) collocations from computer‐mediated reading tasks. Seventy‐five Chinese ESL users read three English texts that contained twelve target collocations, presented under one of three conditions:
Jookyoung Jung +5 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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Listening at different scales: Sociolinguistic perception and the listening subject
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.Abstract This commentary argues that sociophonetic perception studies and linguistic anthropological analyses of the listening subject examine the same underlying process—ideologically structured listening—though at different observational scales.
Anna‐Marie Sprenger
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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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Can a Suit of Armor Conduct Electricity? A New Dataset for Open Book Question Answering
, 2018 We present a new kind of question answering dataset, OpenBookQA, modeled after open book exams for assessing human understanding of a subject. The open book that comes with our questions is a set of 1329 elementary level science facts.
Clark, Peter +3 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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PREDICTING STUDENTS’ GPAS BASED ON CLOZE TESTS IN KAZAKHSTAN [PDF]
Research Result. Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Series, 2015 The purpose o f this study was to determine what correlation, if any, existed between the MA TESOL entrance exam, specifically the cloze test, and students’ performance in the program at an English-medium university in Central Asia. This was accomplished by comparing the results o f students’ scores on the three parts of the exam (cloze and two essays)
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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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Sequential Attention: A Context-Aware Alignment Function for Machine Reading
, 2017 In this paper we propose a neural network model with a novel Sequential Attention layer that extends soft attention by assigning weights to words in an input sequence in a way that takes into account not just how well that word matches a query, but how ...
Bowman, Samuel R. +2 more
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