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Jacobson, Neil G.; Thacker, Ian; Sinatra, Gale M. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2022
Refutation texts are designed to facilitate the revision of inaccurate knowledge; however, studies have documented backfire effects wherein respondents become less accurate when exposed to a factual correction compared to another. Here, we explored whether epistemic emotions mediated knowledge revision or backfire processes when reading…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Psychological Patterns, Misconceptions, Knowledge Level
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Castells, Núria; Minguela, Marta; Nadal, Esther – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Little evidence is available regarding the differential impact of reading versus reading and writing on multiple source comprehension. The present study aims to: (1) compare the inferential comprehension performance of students in reading versus reading/synthesis conditions; (2) explore the impact of performing the tasks on paper versus on screen…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Reading Comprehension, Synthesis, Reading Processes
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Tuyen Thanh Nguyen; John R. Baker; Thao Quang Le – SAGE Open, 2024
This study investigated what features undergraduate EFL learners perceive as affecting the difficulty of model paragraphs. Four hundred and seventy-five Vietnamese undergraduates participated in a partial least squares structural equation model design. They ranked five paragraphs from easiest to most difficult and responded to a 10-point Likert…
Descriptors: Readability, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning