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Poor written and oral text comprehension in third grade children. A multiple case study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In this multiple case study we analyzed oral text comprehension, reading profiles and underlying cognitive abilities (attention, executive functions, working memory, narrative memory, rapid automatized naming and vocabulary) of 9 children identified as ...
Davide Cavallo, Nicola   +3 more
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Synthesis of PEG-PLA Block Copolymer Nanospheres Containing Mixed Recombinant Proteins of Protective Antigen and Lethal Factor of Bacillus anthracis

open access: yesMajallah-i Dānishgāh-i ’Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Īlām, 2021
Introduction: Anthrax is a zoonotic disease and vaccine production is one way to protect people against this bacterium. This study investigates the application of copolymer nanocapsule (PEG-PLA) systems with controlled release specificity for a ...
Hossein Honari   +3 more
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Investigating Strategies for Mitigating and Avoiding Expert Blind Spot Development in Teaching English Attributive Adjectives

open access: yesLET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal, 2023
Teaching is a prominent paraphernalia that brings numerous insights for developing learners’ competence in educational concerns. However, teaching English to non-native learners poses challenges as innovative strategies are scant.
Farisani Thomas Nephawe
doaj   +1 more source

Purported use and self-awareness of cognitive and metacognitive foreign language reading strategies in tertiary education in Mozambique [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper explores the results of a Survey of Reading Strategies (SORS)-based questionnaire administered to 28 university student participants. The study is carried out in a post-colonial multilingual context, Mozambique.
Cabinda, Manuel Joao Jose
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Improving reading fluency and comprehension in adult ESL learners using bottom-up and top-down vocabulary training

open access: yesStudies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
The current research examines the effect of two methods of vocabulary training on reading fluency and comprehension of adult English as second language (ESL) tertiary-bound students.
Rhonda Oliver, Shahreen Young
doaj   +1 more source

Linguistic worldview virtualization exеmplified by K.S. Aksakov’s story «Cloud» [PDF]

open access: yesАктуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2018
"The article approves the idea that the categories of space and time being basic categories of existence and cognition of the world; they form the structure of the worldview and sociocultural human experience and they are expressed in the linguistic ...
Kalashnikova Larisa V.
doaj   +1 more source

Jokes in Italian as a foreign language: comprehension, funniness, and sharing

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research, 2023
This paper analyses whether the comprehension of a joke in Italian as a foreign language is influenced by personal or task elements, whether comprehension influences the perception of funniness, and whether perceived funniness affects intention to share
Alejandra Platas-García   +2 more
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STARC: Structured Annotations for Reading Comprehension

open access: yes, 2020
We present STARC (Structured Annotations for Reading Comprehension), a new annotation framework for assessing reading comprehension with multiple choice questions.
Berzak, Yevgeni   +2 more
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Comprehension as social and intellectual practice: Rebuilding curriculum in low socioeconomic and cultural minority schools [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article reframes the concept of comprehension as a social and intellectual practice. It reviews current approaches to reading instruction for linguistically and culturally diverse and low socioeconomic students, noting an emphasis on comprehension ...
Allan Luke   +27 more
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Patients’ Comprehension of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in an Outpatient Clinic for Resistant Depression: A Cross-Sectional Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
The current study investigated the comprehension of mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy (MBCT) by patients with resistant depression at the Psychiatry Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Michele F. Rodrigues   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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