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Kason Ka Ching Cheung; Jack K. H. Pun; Wangyin Li – Research in Science Education, 2024
ChatGPT becomes a prominent tool for students' learning of science when students "read" its scientific texts. Students read to learn about climate change misinformation using ChatGPT, while they develop critical awareness of the content, linguistic features as well as nature of AI and science to comprehend these texts. In this…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Man Machine Systems, Secondary School Students
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Johansson, Baran – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2022
Previous studies have found that phonological processing and vocabulary predict word reading. However, their predictive powers may vary according to reading experience and across scripts with different levels of transparency. In this study, the relationship between phonological processing, decoding, vocabulary and word reading was explored in two…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Swedish, Language Skills, Reading Skills
Michelle P. Banawan; Jinnie Shin; Tracy Arner; Renu Balyan; Walter L. Leite; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2023
Academic discourse communities and learning circles are characterized by collaboration, sharing commonalities in terms of social interactions and language. The discourse of these communities is composed of jargon, common terminologies, and similarities in how they construe and communicate meaning. This study examines the extent to which discourse…
Descriptors: Algebra, Discourse Analysis, Semantics, Syntax
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Ecalle, Jean; Bouchafa, Houria; Potocki, Anna; Magnan, Annie – Journal of Research in Reading, 2013
Two experiments were conducted to test the hypothesis that sentence processing is an essential mediatory skill between word recognition and text comprehension in reading. In Experiment 1, a semantic similarity judgement task was used with children from Grade 2 to Grade 9. They had to say whether two written sentences had the same (or very similar)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Language Processing
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Ventura, Paulo; Kolinsky, Regine; Pattamadilok, Chotiga; Morais, Jose – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2008
The influence of orthography on children's online auditory word recognition was studied from the end of Grade 4 to the end of Grade 9 by examining the orthographic consistency effect in auditory lexical decision. Fourth-graders showed evidence of a widespread influence of orthography in their spoken word recognition system; words with rimes that…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Grade 4, Grade 9, Influences
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van Gelderen, Amos; Schoonen, Rob; Stoel, Reinoud; de Glopper, Kees; Hulstijn, Jan – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
This study investigated the relationship between reading comprehension development of 389 adolescents in their dominant language (Language 1 [L1], Dutch) and a foreign language (Language 2 [L2], English). In each consecutive year from Grades 8 through 10, a number of measurements were taken. Students' reading comprehension, their linguistic…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Word Recognition, Sentences, Metacognition
Barnes, Tiffany, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Romero, Cristobal, Ed.; Ventura, Sebastian, Ed. – International Working Group on Educational Data Mining, 2009
The Second International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM2009) was held at the University of Cordoba, Spain, on July 1-3, 2009. EDM brings together researchers from computer science, education, psychology, psychometrics, and statistics to analyze large data sets to answer educational research questions. The increase in instrumented…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Research, Conferences (Gatherings), Foreign Countries
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Sham, Diana Po Lan – Online Submission, 2002
The research was conducted in Sydney and Hong Kong using students, from grades 5 to 9, whose first language or teaching medium was English, learning to read Chinese as second language. According to cognitive load theory, the processing of single Chinese characters accompanied by pictures should impose extraneous cognitive load and thus hinders…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Native Language, Chinese