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Aptitude complexes: Expanding our view of language aptitude
The Modern Language Journal, Volume 109, Issue 4, Page 775-799, Winter 2025.Abstract In second language (L2) research, aptitude is typically viewed as a multicomponential, cognitive construct. Yet we know that L2 learning is influenced by multiple learner individual differences (IDs) besides cognitive abilities and that these IDs interact.
Lani Freeborn +2 more
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TriviaQA: A Large Scale Distantly Supervised Challenge Dataset for Reading Comprehension
, 2017 We present TriviaQA, a challenging reading comprehension dataset containing over 650K question-answer-evidence triples. TriviaQA includes 95K question-answer pairs authored by trivia enthusiasts and independently gathered evidence documents, six per ...
Choi, Eunsol +3 more
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Applied Cognitive Psychology, Volume 39, Issue 6, November/December 2025.ABSTRACT When searching for information online, learners often encounter contradictions. In two experiments, we compared the effect of reading two texts containing conflicting theories on the same phenomenon. Either no explanation for the conflict (unresolved‐conflict group) or an explanation for the conflict in the second text was provided either ...
Anne Schüler +2 more
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Vocabulary and reading comprehension : instructional effects [PDF]
, 1978 Bibliography: leaves 32-34Supported by the National Institute of ...
Jenkins, Joseph R. +2 more
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The Argument Reasoning Comprehension Task: Identification and Reconstruction of Implicit Warrants
, 2018 Reasoning is a crucial part of natural language argumentation. To comprehend an argument, one must analyze its warrant, which explains why its claim follows from its premises.
Gurevych, Iryna +3 more
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Working Papers em Lingüística, 2014 O objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar resultados parciais de uma pesquisa de mestrado em que foi avaliada a compreensão de leitura em língua inglesa de 69 mestrandos da área de saúde por meio de um teste cloze de múltipla escolha. O teste cloze é uma técnica atualmente utilizada para avaliar a compreensão de leitura nos diversos níveis de escolaridade
Fernanda Goulart Ritti Dias +1 more
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Contribution of executive function to different levels of reading comprehension
Journal of Research in Reading, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 335-354, November 2025.Background Executive function (EF) is significantly associated with reading comprehension outcomes, yet the interaction between EF and critical language skills (including vocabulary, morphological awareness (MA) and syntactic knowledge), across these levels of reading comprehension (literal, inferential and evaluative comprehension) has rarely been ...
Cathy On‐Ying Hung +2 more
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Apertura, 2016 La importancia de la memoria operativa en la ejecución de distintas tareas cognitivas altamente demandantes, como la lectura de comprensión y, a su vez, el impacto de ésta en el desempeño estudiantil ha sido revisada en diversas investigaciones aplicadas
Ismael Esquivel Gámez +3 more
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Story Cloze Ending Selection Baselines and Data Examination
, 2017 This paper describes two supervised baseline systems for the Story Cloze Test Shared Task (Mostafazadeh et al., 2016a). We first build a classifier using features based on word embeddings and semantic similarity computation. We further implement a neural
Frank, Anette, Mihaylov, Todor
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The contributions of individual oral language skills to kindergarten students' reading comprehension
Journal of Research in Reading, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 355-373, November 2025.Background Research has demonstrated that distinct oral language skills contribute unique variance to text comprehension in students from second grade onward. This study examined these relationships for kindergarten students whose comprehension is often assumed to be determined by word decoding skills.
Jamie L. Metsala +2 more
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