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

, 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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Investigating Reading Comprehension in Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities: Evaluating the Simple View of Reading

Journal of Cognition, 2021
Reading comprehension difficulties are common in individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID), but the influences of underlying abilities related to reading comprehension in this group have rarely been investigated.
Karin Nilsson, Henrik Danielsson, Åsa Elwér, David Messer, Lucy Henry, Stefan Samuelsson   +5 more
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STARC: Structured Annotations for Reading Comprehension

, 2020
We present STARC (Structured Annotations for Reading Comprehension), a new annotation framework for assessing reading comprehension with multiple choice questions.
Berzak, Yevgeni, Levy, Roger, Malmaud, Jonathan   +2 more
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Reading Comprehension Predictors in European Portuguese Adults

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Research on the predictors of reading comprehension has been largely focused on school-aged children and mainly in opaque orthographies, hindering the generalization of the results to adult populations and more transparent orthographies.
Fábio Gonçalves, Alexandra Reis, Alexandra Reis, Filomena Inácio, Filomena Inácio, Inês Salomé Morais, Inês Salomé Morais, Luís Faísca, Luís Faísca   +8 more
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Promoting Multilingual Reader in Efl Classrooms: a Portrait on the Reading Strategies [PDF]

, 2014
This paper reports on how English as a Foreign Language Learner (EFL learners) explored their reading strategis when dealing with L1 and L2 texts. The destination of reading, a notion called comprehension, is by no means is a complicated process.
Bumala, L. (Lala)
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Early Language Competencies and Advanced Measures of Mental State Understanding Are Differently Related to Listening and Reading Comprehension in Early Adolescence

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
The present study tests a section of the DIET (direct and indirect effects model of text comprehension; Kim, 2017) model and focuses on the relations between early language skills, various facets of mental state understanding, and text comprehension.
Susanne Ebert
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Poor written and oral text comprehension in third grade children. A multiple case study [PDF]

, 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, Giangrande, Andrea, Orsolini, Margherita, Scalisi, Teresa   +3 more
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Trends in research on reciprocal teaching: a systematic review

Cogent Education
With the rapid development of society, choosing an effective reading comprehension teaching method for the classroom has become a crucial factor in the professional growth of teachers and educational institutions.
Tuyet Linh Vuong, János Steklács
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The interplay of secondary EFL teachers’ pedagogical beliefs and pedagogical content knowledge with their instructional material use approach orientation

Heliyon
Teachers' cognitive abilities and affective-motivational characteristics were found to be predictive of their instructional activities in earlier studies.
Nurul Fitriyah Almunawaroh, János Steklács   +1 more
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Skim reading: an adaptive strategy for reading on the web

, 2014
It has been suggested that readers spend a great deal of time skim reading on the Web and that if readers skim read they reduce their comprehension of what they have read.
Drieghe, Denis, Fitzsimmons, Gemma, Weal, Mark   +2 more
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