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Task Content Familiarity, Task Type and Efficacy of Recasts

Language Awareness, 2006
The role of recasts has been the subject of an increasing number of second language acquisition (SLA) studies in recent years, as has been the role of tasks. Few studies, nevertheless, exist that investigate the interaction between the two. The present study makes a preliminary excursion into this unexplored domain by examining the impact of two task ...
Zhaohong Han, Andrea Revesz
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Does Familiarity Breed Content? Taking Account of Familiarity with a Topic in Personalizing Information Retrieval

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'06), 2006
We report on an evaluation of the effectiveness of considering a user's familiarity with a topic in improving information retrieval performance. This approach to personalization is based on previous results indicating differences in user search behavior and judgments according to his/her familiarity to the topic explored, and to research on using ...
Gheorghe Muresan, Michael J. Cole, Catherine L. Smith, Lu Liu 0014, Nicholas J. Belkin   +4 more
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Content Familiarity and the Perception of Textual Relationships in Second Language Reading

RELC Journal, 1985
This paper examines the effect of content familiarity on the perception of certain textual relationships by second language learners. Research relating to schema theory is presented and an empirical study involving one hundred second language students is described.
David Nunan
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Content familiarity, attitude and achievement in dramatic literature-in-English in Nigeria

, 2016
This study examined content familiarity and attitude as predictors of student’s achievement in dramatic Literature-in-English language. This study adopted a descriptive survey design. Three hundred and four students of Literature-in-English language, purposively and randomly selected, were involved in the study.
Akinsulire, Y.P.
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Content of Methylated Inositols in Familiar Edible Plants

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2015
Familiar plants contain large amounts of inositols; soybean, white clover, red clover, bush clover, locust tree, wisteria, and kudzu of the legume family contain pinitol (3-O-methyl-chiro-inositol) at approximately 200-600 mg/100 g fresh weight (FW). The contents of pinitol in other plants were 260 mg/100 g FW for sticky mouse-ear, 275 mg/100 g FW for ...
Osamu, Negishi, Abdul, Mun'im, Yukiko, Negishi   +2 more
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Familiarity Breeds Content? Soothing Effect of a Familiar Odor on Full-Term Newborns

Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 2007
This study tested the effects of familiar and unfamiliar odors during a heel stick in full-term newborns.Forty-four newborns were exposed to vanillin (via their mother or via their crib) or no odor prior to a heel stick. On the day of the heel stick, infants were either exposed to a familiar odor, an unfamiliar odor, or no odor before, during, and ...
Nathalie, Goubet, Kathleen, Strasbaugh, Jennifer, Chesney   +2 more
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Effects of Familiarity with Content on Propositional Reasoning

The Journal of General Psychology, 1979
Summary A 48-item propositional reasoning test was administered to male and female graduate students: 50 in special education and 50 in other areas of professional education. An analysis of variance of the number of errors indicated significant main effects for type of reasoning and type of content, and a significant interaction between these factors ...
James J. Roberge, Richard F. Antonak
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Effect of familiar content on paragraph comprehension in aphasia

Aphasiology, 2007
Background: Previous research has shown that context improves aphasic individuals' auditory comprehension. The specific contextual information that has been identified as beneficial includes semantic constraints, semantic plausibility, both predictive and non‐predictive information, and familiar topics.
Doreen Krackenfels Jones, Robert S. Pierce, Molly Mahoney, Kim Smeach   +3 more
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The effect of information content distributions on word recollection and familiarity

2023
Abstract This study builds on work on language processing and information theory which suggests that informationally uniform, or smoother, sequences are easier to process than ones in which information arrives in clumps. Because episodic memory is a form of memory in which information is encoded within its surrounding context, we ...
Joel C. Wallenberg, Salsabila Nadhif Fadhilah, Taylor D. Hinton, Tom V. Smulders, Jenny C.A. Read, Christine Cuskley   +5 more
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APPRAISAL OF FAMILIARITY WITH CONTENT: ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH DIMENSIONS OF EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE

Hellenic Journal of Psychology, 2021
Hellenic Journal of Psychology, Vol 18, No 1 (2021)
Milošević, Miloš, Ristić, Irena J.
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