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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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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 for Comprehension in Individuals with Down Syndrome, Autism Spectrum Disorder and Typical Development: Similar or Different Patterns of Ability?

Brain Sciences, 2021
Reading for meaning is one of the most important activities in school and everyday life. The simple view of reading (SVR) has been used as a framework for studies of reading comprehension in individuals with Down syndrome (DS).
Maja Roch, Kate Cain, Christopher Jarrold   +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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Reading fluency as the bridge between decoding and reading comprehension in Chinese children

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
PurposeReading fluency has been considered an essential component of reading comprehension, but it is yet to be examined in a reading model in a non-alphabetic writing system.
Lucy Shih-Ju Hsu, Kevin Chan, Connie Suk-Han Ho   +2 more
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Reading comprehension

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2016
The role of first language (L1) skills in second language (L2) achievement is often investigated to assist learners in acquiring their L2. There are several factors that may influence potential relations among Spanish and English measures (e.g., age of L2 acquisition, social status, among others).
Aline Ferreira, Alexandra Gottardo, Christine Javier, John W. Schwieter, Fanli Jia   +4 more
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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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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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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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