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How executive functions contribute to reading comprehension

open access: yesBritish Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Background Executive functions have been proposed to account for individual variation in reading comprehension beyond the contributions of decoding skills and language skills.
S. Nouwens   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

DREAM: A Challenge Data Set and Models for Dialogue-Based Reading Comprehension [PDF]

open access: yesTransactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019
We present DREAM, the first dialogue-based multiple-choice reading comprehension data set. Collected from English as a Foreign Language examinations designed by human experts to evaluate the comprehension level of Chinese learners of English, our data ...
Kai Sun   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Considering the Role of Executive Function in Reading Comprehension: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

open access: yesScientific Studies of Reading, 2020
In the present study, we used latent variable structural equation modeling to investigate relations between oral language, decoding, and two components of executive function (cognitive flexibility and working memory) and reading comprehension in a sample
Mercedes Spencer   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Learning to Ask: Neural Question Generation for Reading Comprehension [PDF]

open access: yesAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017
We study automatic question generation for sentences from text passages in reading comprehension. We introduce an attention-based sequence learning model for the task and investigate the effect of encoding sentence- vs. paragraph-level information.
Xinya Du, Junru Shao, Claire Cardie
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Trends in research on reciprocal teaching: a systematic review

open access: yesCogent 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
doaj   +1 more source

The Effects of Home Literacy Environment on Children’s Reading Comprehension Development: A Meta-analysis

open access: yes, 2020
A rich home literacy environment (HLE) fosters students’ academic achievement. However, the link between HLE and children’s reading comprehension is unclear.
Yang Dong, S. Wu, Weiyang Dong, Yi Tang
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Cognitive Graph for Multi-Hop Reading Comprehension at Scale [PDF]

open access: yesAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019
We propose a new CogQA framework for multi-hop reading comprehension question answering in web-scale documents. Founded on the dual process theory in cognitive science, the framework gradually builds a cognitive graph in an iterative process by ...
Ming Ding   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The correlations among English language exposure, learning motivation, and reading comprehension achievement of high school students in Palembang

open access: yesEnglish Review: Journal of English Education, 2020
Language exposure and learning motivation are two of the most essential aspects in learning any language. In English language acquisition, the development of these two components facilitates the development of other language skills, such as reading ...
Galiansa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Syntactic Awareness and Reading Comprehension in Emergent Bilingual Children

open access: yesLanguages, 2023
The present study investigated the role of syntactic awareness in reading comprehension among English–French bilinguals learning French as an additional language in Canadian French immersion programs.
Diana Burchell   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Testing the KAPS Model of Reading Comprehension in a Turkish Elementary School Context from Low Socioeconomic Background

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2020
This correlational study aimed to explore the relations of background knowledge, automaticity (rate), prosody, and strategy use with reading comprehension (KAPS model of reading comprehension) in the written Turkish language context with 207 fourth grade
Kasim Yildirim   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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