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On Checking Reading Comprehension

The Modern Language Journal, 1951
T RANSLATION has been frequently and thoroughly damned as a classroom activity. Although it has not lacked defenders to declare with considerable justice that its faults lie not so much in the method itself as in its abuse, certain it is that translation remains a preponderant activity in American classrooms not so much because of any deep-seated ...
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Idioms and Reading Comprehension

Journal of Reading Behavior, 1974
Presents results from a study designed to determine whether idioms cause difficulty for children in the reading and understanding of prose. Two hundred and fifty-six grade eight children were randomly chosen from two high schools and each child was tested with one of four tests which contained increasing amounts of idiomatic expressions. The treatment
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Reading Comprehension Research: Implications for Practice and Policy

Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2019
Reading comprehension is one of the most complex cognitive activities in which humans engage, making it difficult to teach, measure, and research. Despite decades of research in reading comprehension, international and national reading scores indicate ...
Amy M. Elleman, Eric L. Oslund
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Validation in Reading Comprehension

Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2013
Language comprehension involves analysis at the level of the word, sentence, and message and the integration of message meaning with the prior discourse and world knowledge. Contemporary research converges on another facet of comprehension: the validation of message consistency.
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Pragmatics and Reading Comprehension

2017
This chapter discusses the subfield of linguistics in which such matters are studied, pragmatics. Pragmatic descriptions and explanations are currently attracting interest not only in linguistics but also in philosophy, psychology, and related fields. The term pragmatics was first used by Morris for aspects of language that involve users and contexts ...
Jerry Morgan, Georgia M. Green
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Reading Comprehension in Law

2021
В учебнике рассмотрены темы, помогающие студентам использовать полученные знания в практической деятельности, развивать навыки чтения и перевода иностранных текстов профессиональной направленности, уметь общаться на профессиональные темы, понимать и составлять юридические документы на иностранном языке, знать основную терминологию.
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Assessing Reading Comprehension

Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2004
Generally, experts agree on what good readers do to comprehend text—they connect new text with past experiences, interpret, evaluate, synthesize, and consider alternative interpretations. Yet, traditional measures of reading comprehension only provide a general indicator of how well a student understands text. They do not provide information about how
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Measuring Reading Comprehension

The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 1958
(1958). Measuring Reading Comprehension. The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas: Vol. 32, No. 6, pp. 343-345.
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Assessment of Reading Comprehension

Revista Romaneasca pentru Educatie Multidimensionala, 2016
This study attempts to shed light on the concept of assessment as an essential pedagogical practice for the improvement of the teaching-learning process. Particularly, it stresses the strategies and the techniques that should be used in assessing reading comprehension with reference to EFL classrooms.
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Theories of Reading Comprehension

2019
‘We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a beam is taken away a new one must at once be put there, and for this the rest of the ship is used as support. In this way, by using the old beams and driftwood the ship can be shaped entirely anew, but only by gradual ...
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