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Pulido, Manuel F.; López-Beltrán, Priscila – Cognitive Science, 2023
Previous work on individual differences has revealed limitations in the ability of existing measures (e.g., working memory) to predict language processing. Recent evidence suggests that an individual's sensitivity to detect the statistical regularities present in language (i.e., "chunk sensitivity") may significantly modulate online…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Native Speakers, Gender Differences, Cues
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He, Qiwei; Borgonovi, Francesca; Suárez-Álvarez, Javier – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: Data-driven investigations of how students transit pages in digital reading tasks and how much time they spend on each transition allow mapping sequences of navigation behaviours into students' navigation reading strategies. Objectives: The purpose of this study is threefold: (1) to identify students' navigation patterns in…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Reading Processes, Task Analysis, Time on Task
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Mulder, Evelien; van de Ven, Marco; Segers, Eliane; Krepel, Alexander; de Bree, Elise H.; de Jong, Peter F.; Verhoeven, Ludo – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
We assessed the relationship between word-to-text-integration (WTI) and reading comprehension in 7th grade students (n = 441) learning English as a second language (L2). The students performed a self-paced WTI reading task in Fall (T1) and Spring (T2), consisting of three text manipulation types (anaphora resolution, argument overlap, anomaly…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Fluency
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Eilers, Sarah; Tiffin-Richards, Simon P.; Schroeder, Sascha – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2019
Children struggle with the resolution of pronouns during reading, but little is known about the sources of their difficulties. We conducted a longitudinal eye tracking experiment with 70 children in the final years of primary school. The children read sentences with a contextual resolution preference in which gender was either an informative…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Eye Movements, Longitudinal Studies, Elementary School Students
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Ferstl, Evelyn C.; Israel, Laura; Putzar, Lisa – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
One crucial property of verbal jokes is that the punchline usually contains an incongruency that has to be resolved by updating the situation model representation. In the standard pragmatic model, these processes are considered to require cognitive effort. However, only few studies compared jokes to texts requiring a situation model revision…
Descriptors: Humor, Reading Comprehension, Eye Movements, Gender Differences
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Saint-Aubin, Jean; Voyer, Daniel; Roy, Macha – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
When readers must search for a target letter while reading a continuous text, they are more likely to miss targets in frequent function words than in less frequent content words. This missing-letter effect has been found across many languages, methodologies, and types of reading materials. Despite the ubiquity of the missing-letter effect, sex…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Instructional Effectiveness, Reading Materials, Reading Rate