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Reading Comprehension in Undergraduates during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Associations with Executive Function Difficulties, Reading Habits and Screen Times
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Ángel Javier Tabullo; María Florencia Chiófalo; Alejandro Javier Wainselboim – Reading Psychology, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic and its concomitant restriction measures drastically altered the routines and learning formats of students from all levels. In addition, it has been shown that pandemic-related stress negatively impacted their mental health and cognitive functioning. Undergraduates have been signaled out as one of the populations most…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Undergraduate Students, COVID-19, Pandemics
Extending Reading Research with a Focus on Cultural Understanding and Research on Intercultural Communication: An Empirical Investigation in Argentina
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Porto, Melina – Intercultural Education, 2014
The work presented here is an empirical study of how advanced learners of English as a foreign language in Argentina access and understand the culture-specific dimensions of literary narrative texts. It has three purposes. First, to extend research into reading in a foreign language to take account of the culture-specific content of texts. Second,…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Intercultural Communication, Investigations, Literary Criticism