NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 2 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Evelien Mulder; Marco van de Ven; Eliane Segers; Alexander Krepel; Elise H. de Bree; Peter F. de Jong; Ludo Verhoeven – Journal of Research in Reading, 2024
Background: Word-to-text integration (WTI) can be challenging for second-language (L2) learners, although it can positively contribute to reading comprehension. The present study examined the role of WTI, after controlling for decoding, vocabulary and morphosyntactic awareness, in predicting English as an L2 reading comprehension development in…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Semantics
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Reilly, Jamie; Kean, Jacob – Cognitive Science, 2007
Words associated with perceptually salient, highly imageable concepts are learned earlier in life, more accurately recalled, and more rapidly named than abstract words (R. W. Brown, 1976; Walker & Hulme, 1999). Theories accounting for this concreteness effect have focused exclusively on semantic properties of word referents. A novel possibility is…
Descriptors: Semantics, Etymology, Word Processing, Nouns