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Klassen, Kimberly – Reading Psychology, 2020
This paper presents findings from an approximate replication of Erten and Razi (2009), which investigated the effects of cultural familiarity and reading activities on comprehension. Two variables were modified in the replication: participants' first language (L1) and proficiency. Cultural referents were manipulated in a short story to make them…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Familiarity, Cultural Context, Second Language Learning
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Nahatame, Shingo – Reading Psychology, 2020
Previous studies have investigated how second language (L2) readers construct memory for narrative texts according to causal relations between the events described. This study aims to extend their findings by including semantic text relations (similarity of meaning) as another variable, which are theoretically expected to play an additional role…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Second Language Learning, Attribution Theory, Memory
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Kobayashi, Keiichi – Reading Psychology, 2015
The present study examined the effect of intertextual conflict resolution on learning from conflicting texts. In two experiments, participants read sets of two texts under the condition of being encouraged either to resolve a conflict between the texts' arguments (the resolution condition) or to comprehend the arguments (the comprehension…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods, Recall (Psychology)