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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
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Crowdsourcing Multiple Choice Science Questions
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
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Scope as a Source for Non‐Incremental Effects?
ABSTRACT Incrementality is one of the hallmarks of realtime language comprehension. It contrasts sharply with another feature of language comprehension, the high degree of context dependence exhibited by many expressions calling for global adaptations to the larger discourse context.
Fabian Schlotterbeck, Oliver Bott
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Programa de computador para a criação e aplicação de testes de Cloze
Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo validar um programa de computador para a criação e aplicação de Testes de Cloze no formato digital. Participaram 69 estudantes com idades entre 14 a 53 anos de uma escola de ensino médio técnico do interior do estado de São Paulo. Foi utilizado o Teste de Cloze “Coisas da natureza”.
Ewerton José da Silva +1 more
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Measure for Measure: A Critical Consumers' Guide to Reading Comprehension Assessments for Adolescents [PDF]
A companion report to Carnegie's Time to Act, analyzes and rates commonly used reading comprehension tests for various elements and purposes.
Catherine Snow +2 more
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Abstract This study investigated the cognitive mechanisms underlying the processing of garden‐path sentences by examining the influence of verb/structural bias, cloze probability, surprisal, and plausibility. Using self‐paced reading with yes/no comprehension questions, we analyzed a structurally diverse set of 11 types of ambiguous and unambiguous ...
Markéta Ceháková, Jan Chromý
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Este estudo teve por objetivo explorar a relação entre a compreensão em leitura, o desempenho acadêmico e a avaliação da aprendizagem em disciplinas específicas.
Katya Luciane de Oliveira +1 more
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Can a Suit of Armor Conduct Electricity? A New Dataset for Open Book Question Answering
We present a new kind of question answering dataset, OpenBookQA, modeled after open book exams for assessing human understanding of a subject. The open book that comes with our questions is a set of 1329 elementary level science facts.
Clark, Peter +3 more
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Event‐related potentials elicited in children with specific language impairment (SLI) and typically developing (controls), averaged across the F3, F4, Fz, C3, C4, and Cz electrodes. The upper panel displays the comparison between first‐ and second‐order complexity paradigms, averaging standard and deviant trials, with the baseline established previous ...
Francisco J. Ruiz‐Martínez +6 more
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Dificuldades de aprendizagem em escrita e compreensão em leitura
This study aimed to investigate the difficulties of reading comprehension faced by some children in learning the written language. 194 second and third grade students from a public school in the suburbs of Poços de Caldas were studied.
Karla Aparecida Zucoloto +1 more
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