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Burkhart, Christian; Lachner, Andreas; Nückles, Matthias – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Writing cohesive texts is a crucial but challenging skill to master. Recently, cognitive tools that provide students with a graphical representation of their texts in the form of concept-maps have been shown to support students' writing. Despite its beneficial effects, the addition of a graphical representation may have the disadvantage that…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Feedback (Response), Writing (Composition), Concept Mapping
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Lehesvuori, Sami; Ametller, Jaume – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Despite rapid changes in education, science classrooms will remain central forums where fragmented pieces of information are brought together to construct coherent knowledge as concepts and explanatory scientific storylines. There is limited work stressing the importance of the interplay between how content is communicated through pedagogical…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Scientific Concepts
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Vögelin, Cristina; Jansen, Thorben; Keller, Stefan D.; Machts, Nils; Möller, Jens – Cogent Education, 2020
Assessing student writing is a complex task and experimental studies have shown that textual determinants, such as spelling or vocabulary, affect teachers' judgments of other analytic criteria in student essays. Among these elements, organisation has not been extensively explored. This experimental study examines how organisational quality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction
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Röer, Jan Philipp; Bell, Raoul; Körner, Ulrike; Buchner, Axel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
Short-term memory (STM) for serially presented visual items is disrupted by task-irrelevant, to-beignored speech. Five experiments investigated the extent to which irrelevant speech is processed semantically by contrasting the following two hypotheses: (1) semantic processing of irrelevant speech is limited and does not interfere with serial STM…
Descriptors: Semantics, Recall (Psychology), Short Term Memory, Sentence Structure
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Zander, Thea; Volz, Kirsten G.; Born, Jan; Diekelmann, Susanne – Learning & Memory, 2017
Sleep fosters the generation of explicit knowledge. Whether sleep also benefits implicit intuitive decisions about underlying patterns is unclear. We examined sleep's role in explicit and intuitive semantic coherence judgments. Participants encoded sets of three words and after a sleep or wake period were required to judge the potential…
Descriptors: Sleep, Semantics, Intuition, Decision Making
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Knoepke, Julia; Richter, Tobias; Isberner, Maj-Britt; Naumann, Johannes; Neeb, Yvonne; Weinert, Sabine – Journal of Child Language, 2017
Establishing local coherence relations is central to text comprehension. Positive-causal coherence relations link a cause and its consequence, whereas negative-causal coherence relations add a contrastive meaning (negation) to the causal link. According to the cumulative cognitive complexity approach, negative-causal coherence relations are…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Accuracy, German, Elementary School Students
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Debreslioska, Sandra; Özyürek, Asli; Gullberg, Marianne; Perniss, Pamela – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
The tracking of entities in discourse is known to be a bimodal phenomenon. Speakers achieve cohesion in speech by alternating between full lexical forms, pronouns, and zero anaphora as they track referents. They also track referents in co-speech gestures. In this study, we explored how viewpoint is deployed in reference tracking, focusing on…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Processing, Connected Discourse, Language Usage
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Euler, Sasha S. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
This article discusses the assessment of pronunciation instruction under a new approach to pronunciation teaching centered on the role of connected speech in the prosodic system of English. It also offers a detailed discussion of various empirical problems in teaching-oriented L2 pronunciation research and suggests ways of addressing them in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Advanced Students