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The Impact of Authentic Materials on Reading Comprehension, Motivation, and Anxiety Among Iranian Male EFL Learners

Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2021
This study aimed to investigate the effect of using authentic materials on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ reading comprehension, reading motivation, and reading anxiety.
Ehsan Namaziandost   +3 more
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DROP: A Reading Comprehension Benchmark Requiring Discrete Reasoning Over Paragraphs

North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019
Reading comprehension has recently seen rapid progress, with systems matching humans on the most popular datasets for the task. However, a large body of work has highlighted the brittleness of these systems, showing that there is much work left to be ...
Dheeru Dua   +5 more
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BERT Post-Training for Review Reading Comprehension and Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis

North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019
Question-answering plays an important role in e-commerce as it allows potential customers to actively seek crucial information about products or services to help their purchase decision making.
Hu Xu, Bing Liu, Lei Shu, Philip S. Yu
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The validity of reading comprehension rate: Reading speed, comprehension, and comprehension rates

Psychology in the Schools, 2009
AbstractThis article describes a secondary analysis of a brief reading comprehension rate measure, percent comprehension questions correct per minute spent reading (%C/M). This measure includes reading speed (seconds to read) in the denominator and percentage of comprehension questions answered correctly in the numerator.
Jacqueline L. Williams   +5 more
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The unique contribution of working memory, inhibition, cognitive flexibility, and intelligence to reading comprehension and reading speed

Child Neuropsychology: A Journal of Normal and Abnormal Development in Childhood and Adolescence, 2020
There are several studies showing that executive functions such as working memory, inhibition, and cognitive flexibility are related to reading abilities.
Verena E. Johann   +2 more
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The relationship between vocabulary knowledge and L2 reading/listening comprehension: A meta-analysis

Language Teaching Research, 2020
This study set out to investigate the relationship between L2 vocabulary knowledge (VK) and second-language (L2) reading/listening comprehension. More than 100 individual studies were included in this meta-analysis, which generated 276 effect sizes from ...
Songshan Zhang, Xian Zhang
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Reading Comprehension and Reading Disability

2015
Virtually all reading researchers and theorists, regardless of their views of reading development, regard comprehension as the gold standard in de ning prima facie reading dif culties. Thus, even if a good comprehender exhibited some de cits in particular skill areas (e.g., phonics or monitoring), we would say that those variations from the ideal ...
Katherine K. Frankel   +2 more
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A Look at Reading Comprehension

Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1978
This complex area deserves more intensive study than it has received in the past. We hope this material will provide stimulation toward this end. The editors have called upon Dr. Glen Van Etten for assistance in analyzing some of the literature on reading comprehension.
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Paraphrasing and reading comprehension

Reading World, 1984
This study examined the relationship between paraphrasing skills of 400 fourth, fifth, and sixth grade pupils and their proficiency in reading comprehension.
H. Thompson Fillmer, Jack E. Haynes
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Motivation for reading comprehension

Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
Abstract In a sample of 104 Norwegian ninth-grade students, we examined whether perceived reading efficacy and reading task value uniquely predicted the comprehension of a social studies text after variance associated with gender, achievement in the domain, topic knowledge, deeper strategies, and surface strategies had been removed through forced ...
Ivar Bråten, Øistein Anmarkrud
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