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Eye Movements, Item Modality, and Multimodal Second Language Vocabulary Learning: Processing and Outcomes

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examined second language vocabulary processing and learning in reading only (RO) versus reading while listening (RWL). 119 English learners read or read‐while‐listening to a story embedded with 25 pseudowords, 10 times each, and had their eye movements tracked.
Jonathan Malone   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Características de comprensión lectora en estudiantes universitarios

open access: yesJurídicas, 2010
Leer es poner en funcionamiento las operaciones de la inteligencia: reconocer, analizar, sintetizar, comparar, inferir… Por otra parte, escribir/leer origina un doble movimiento: el que realiza el escritor y el que lleva a cabo el lector.
Arlenys Calderón Ibañez   +1 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Reading-related skills of kindergarteners from diverse linguistic backgrounds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This study examined whether measures used to identify children at risk for reading failure are appropriate for children from different language backgrounds.
Chiappe, Penny   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Text Understanding with the Attention Sum Reader Network

open access: yes, 2016
Several large cloze-style context-question-answer datasets have been introduced recently: the CNN and Daily Mail news data and the Children's Book Test. Thanks to the size of these datasets, the associated text comprehension task is well suited for deep ...
Bajgar, Ondrej   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Revisiting Text Readability and Processing Effort in Second Language Reading: Bayesian Analysis of Eye‐Tracking Data

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Studies have explored the relationship between text readability and processing effort in second language (L2) reading—as evidenced by eye movements. However, these studies generally relied on short texts, raising concerns about the validity of the analyzed data. This study reexamined these relationships using open‐source eye‐tracking data from
Shingo Nahatame, Kazuhiro Yamaguchi
wiley   +1 more source

Compreensão de leitura e motivação para aprendizagem de alunos do ensino fundamental

open access: yesPsicologia Escolar e Educacional
Resumo O presente estudo teve como propósito identificar a relação existente entre compreensão de leitura e motivação para aprender de estudantes do ensino fundamental.
Acácia Aparecida Angeli dos Santos   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Crowdsourcing Multiple Choice Science Questions

open access: yes, 2017
We present a novel method for obtaining high-quality, domain-targeted multiple choice questions from crowd workers. Generating these questions can be difficult without trading away originality, relevance or diversity in the answer options.
Gardner, Matt   +2 more
core   +1 more source

How Do They Feel? Processing Others’ Emotions in Second Language Discourse

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Emotion that is implied rather than literally expressed requires the processing of literal and pragmatic information. Processing multiple information types is an easy, fast process in the first language (L1) but can be costlier in a second language (L2), especially when emotional content is involved.
Andrea González‐García Aldariz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Event Representations for Automated Story Generation with Deep Neural Nets

open access: yes, 2017
Automated story generation is the problem of automatically selecting a sequence of events, actions, or words that can be told as a story. We seek to develop a system that can generate stories by learning everything it needs to know from textual story ...
Ammanabrolu, Prithviraj   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Developing L2 semantic knowledge of English modality through concept‐based language instruction: Do cognitive linguistics materials have an advantage?

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the pedagogical impact of integrating cognitive linguistics (CL) into concept‐based language instruction (C‐BLI) for teaching English modal verbs. Eighty‐nine Mandarin‐speaking university learners were assigned to one of three instructional conditions: C‐BLI with CL‐based conceptualizations (C‐BLI‐CL), C‐BLI with non‐CL
Helen Zhao, James P. Lantolf
wiley   +1 more source

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