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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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Emergent Predication Structure in Hidden State Vectors of Neural Readers
, 2017 A significant number of neural architectures for reading comprehension have recently been developed and evaluated on large cloze-style datasets. We present experiments supporting the emergence of "predication structure" in the hidden state vectors of ...
Gimpel, Kevin +3 more
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Learning strategy use and performance on the multiple-choice cloze
Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics, 2007 The purpose of this study was to examine how college EFL learners use learning strategies in performing a multiple-choice doze test. Based on a general framework of cognitive and metacognitive strategies referred to O'Malley et a1. (1985) and Oxford (1990), the verbal protocols produced by four EFL learners were analyzed in terms of doze item types and
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Journal of Research in Reading, Volume 49, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT Background This study explored the differential effects of a comprehensive intervention program for improving literacy skills in monolingual children with learning difficulties (LD) from Spain, enrolled in the second (Grades 3 and 4; aged 8–10 years) and third cycles (Grades 5 and 6; aged 10–12 years) of primary school.
María Carmona +3 more
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Incorporating Structured Commonsense Knowledge in Story Completion
, 2018 The ability to select an appropriate story ending is the first step towards perfect narrative comprehension. Story ending prediction requires not only the explicit clues within the context, but also the implicit knowledge (such as commonsense) to ...
Chen, Jiaao, Chen, Jianshu, Yu, Zhou
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Scope as a Source for Non‐Incremental Effects?
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT Incrementality is one of the hallmarks of realtime language comprehension. It contrasts sharply with another feature of language comprehension, the high degree of context dependence exhibited by many expressions calling for global adaptations to the larger discourse context.
Fabian Schlotterbeck, Oliver Bott
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Test Method Facet and the Construct Validity of Listening Comprehension Tests [PDF]
Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2010 The assessment of listening abilities is one of the least understood, least developed and, yet, one of the most important areas of language testing and assessment.
Roya Khoii, Sara Paydarnia
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Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 4, April 2026.Abstract This study investigated the cognitive mechanisms underlying the processing of garden‐path sentences by examining the influence of verb/structural bias, cloze probability, surprisal, and plausibility. Using self‐paced reading with yes/no comprehension questions, we analyzed a structurally diverse set of 11 types of ambiguous and unambiguous ...
Markéta Ceháková, Jan Chromý
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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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Multiple-choice cloze exercise generation through English grammar learning support
International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence, 2013 Intelligent Tutoring System ITS is a learning support system which provides an individual learning environment to students. ITS gives learning contents to students according to the learning strategy based on their understanding degree. Many traditional ITSs, however, have static predefined contents without regard to individual preferences.
Ayse Saliha Sunar +2 more
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