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Marcus C. G. Friedrich; Selina Gajewski; Katja Hagenberg; Christine Wenz; Elke Heise – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
Gender-fair language makes women and people of other genders, their interests, and achievements more visible. However, critics argue that gender-fair language impairs the comprehensibility and aesthetic appeal of texts. This study tests these assumptions specifically concerning the gender asterisk, a form of gender-fair language that makes people…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Sex Fairness, Comprehension, Aesthetics
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Krista Merry; Pete Bettinger; Taeyoon Lee – Journal of Extension, 2024
Online learning has become an important advance in education in the last decade. We developed an online learning system related to land and tree measurements. University students were given pre- and postexposure surveys for two courses offered within the online system. Surveys were designed to assess whether the knowledge level and confidence of…
Descriptors: College Students, Forestry, Electronic Learning, Outcomes of Education
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Million Tadesse – SAGE Open, 2024
This study was targeted to assess adult education program implementers' understanding towards adult education policy documents and usage of the documents in Addis Ababa City Administration. In order to guide the study qualitative method was applied. Accordingly, qualitative data was gathered using interview and document analysis. Qualitative data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Educational Policy
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Luis E. Muñoz; Natalia Kartushina; Julien Mayor – Developmental Science, 2024
Pacifier use during childhood has been hypothesized to interfere with language processing, but, to date, there is limited evidence revealing detrimental effects of prolonged pacifier use on infant vocabulary learning. In the present study, parents of 12- and 24-month-old infants were recruited in Oslo (Norway). The sample included 1187 monolingual…
Descriptors: Infants, Correlation, Infant Behavior, Foreign Countries
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Tibken, Catharina; Richter, Tobias; Wannagat, Wienke; Schmiedeler, Sandra; von der Linden, Nicole; Schneider, Wolfgang – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2022
The inconsistency task is used to measure metacognitive monitoring in text comprehension via online (reading time) and offline measures (number of detected inconsistencies). Few studies have examined stability in task performance and interindividual differences. We addressed these issues with adolescents (N = 341) in Grades 6/7 (Mage =…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Ge, Haoyan; Liu, Fang; Yuen, Hoi Kwan; Chen, Aishu; Yip, Virginia – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
This study investigated the comprehension of prosodically and syntactically marked focus by 5- to 8-year-old Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Children listened to question-answer dialogues while looking at pictures depicting the scenarios, and judged whether the answers were correct responses to the…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Children, Sino Tibetan Languages, Suprasegmentals
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Filstad, Cathrine; Olsen, Trude Høgvold; Thomassen, Anja Overgaard – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2023
Purpose: This paper aims to contribute to the literature on distributed sensemaking by studying how the police establish and develop their new position as police contacts during the police reform. Design/methodology/approach: The authors studied how the position of police contact, a cornerstone of the recent Norwegian police reform, was…
Descriptors: Police, Comprehension, Organizational Change, Foreign Countries
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Greene, Nathaniel R.; Naveh-Benjamin, Moshe – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
Assessing the time course under which underlying memory representations can be formed is an important question for understanding memory. Several studies assessing item memory have shown that gist representations of items are laid out more rapidly than verbatim representations. However, for associations among items/components, which form the core…
Descriptors: Memory, Comprehension, Cognitive Processes, Visual Discrimination
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Wang, Yi; Zhou, Zhijin; Paas, Fred – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2023
In this study, we investigated whether a colourful design would foster the aesthetic appreciation of Chinese classic poetry, and the role of learners' empathy trait in this process. Middle school students (N = 159) were assigned to one of four conditions in a 2 (Colour Design: Colourful vs. Grayscale) × 2 (Empathy Trait: High vs. Low)…
Descriptors: Color, Aesthetics, Poetry, Empathy
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Wanabuliandari, Savitri; Ardianti, Sekar Dwi – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2023
The purpose of this study was to analyze edutainment modules based on local excellence in Pantai Utara of Indonesia in terms of students' conceptual comprehension abilities. The edutainment module based on local excellence on Pantai Utara of Indonesia was developed with the Borg and Gall models developed. The development phase of the ethno-edutain…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Effectiveness, Elementary School Students, Instructional Materials
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Crowther, Dustin; Holden, Daniel; Urada, Kristen – Language Teaching, 2022
Published in "Language Learning" in 1995, Munro and Derwing's* investigation of foreign accent, comprehensibility, and intelligibility in second language (L2) speech instigated significant change in L2 pronunciation research (Levis, 2020). A key finding was that despite the presence of a foreign accent, listeners could indeed comprehend…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pronunciation, Intelligibility
Shannon M. Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Chemistry is a difficult subject for many students. The content is challenging, and students often enter chemistry classes with preconceived ideas about chemical phenomena which may or may not align with scientific ideas (Gabel, 1999; Johnstone, 1991, 1993; Nakhleh, 1992). The purpose of this study was to understand high school students'…
Descriptors: High School Students, Chemistry, Comprehension, Concept Formation
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Andriana L. Christofalos; Nicole M. Arco; Madison Laks; Heather Sheridan – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2025
Removing interword spacing has been shown to disrupt lower-level oculomotor processes and word identification during text reading. However, the impact of these disruptions on higher-level processes remains unclear. To examine the influence of spacing on inferential processing, we monitored eye movements while participants read spaced and unspaced…
Descriptors: Inferences, Reader Text Relationship, Eye Movements, Reading
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Li-Chih Wang; Sau Mei Stephanie Chu; Ji-Kang Chen – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2024
This study aims to bridge the research gap in the humour comprehension problems of individuals with dyslexia in Chinese culture. We conducted a nonexperimental study to examine the differences between Chinese adolescents with and without dyslexia in visual humour comprehension as well as the group differences in the correlation of visual humour…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Humor, Dyslexia, Students with Disabilities
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Allison J. Jaeger; Logan Fiorella – Metacognition and Learning, 2024
Prior research suggests most students do not glean valid cues from provided visuals, resulting in reduced metacomprehension accuracy. Across 4 experiments, we explored how the presence of instructional visuals affects students' metacomprehension accuracy and cue-use for different types of metacognitive judgments. Undergraduates read texts on…
Descriptors: Cues, Visual Stimuli, Comprehension, Metacognition
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