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Direct linkMoshe Poliak; Rachel Ryskin; Mika Braginsky; Edward Gibson – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
Under the noisy-channel framework of language comprehension, comprehenders infer the speaker's intended meaning by integrating the perceived utterance with their knowledge of the language, the world, and the kinds of errors that can occur in communication. Previous research has shown that, when sentences are improbable under the meaning prior…
Descriptors: Russian, Ambiguity (Semantics), Sentence Structure, Inferences
Andreea Dutulescu; Stefan Ruseti; Denis Iorga; Mihai Dascalu; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2024
The process of generating challenging and appropriate distractors for multiple-choice questions is a complex and time-consuming task. Existing methods for an automated generation have limitations in proposing challenging distractors, or they fail to effectively filter out incorrect choices that closely resemble the correct answer, share synonymous…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Artificial Intelligence, Attention, Natural Language Processing
Download full textSeyedeh Azadeh Ghiasian; Fatemeh Hemmati; Seyyed Mohammad Alavi; Afsar Rouhi – International Journal of Language Testing, 2025
A critical component of cognitive diagnostic models (CDMs) is a Q-matrix that stipulates associations between items of a test and their required attributes. The present study aims to develop and empirically validate a Q-matrix for the listening comprehension section of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS). To this end, a…
Descriptors: Test Items, Listening Comprehension Tests, English (Second Language), Language Tests
Ken Fujita; Mitsuo Ishida – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2024
Readers should construct a coherent discourse during reading comprehension. The ability to build coherence has been examined using coherence and cohesion judgment tasks. Although eye-tracking studies have been conducted on building coherence or processing cohesion among native language users, few such studies have been conducted with second…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
HyeJin Hwang; Seohyeon Choi; Manjary Guha; Kristen McMaster; Rina Harsch; Panayiota Kendeou – Grantee Submission, 2024
In the current study, we investigated the role of executive functions in explaining how word recognition and language comprehension jointly predict reading comprehension in multilingual and monolingual students (Grades 1 and 2). Specifically, mediation and moderation models were tested and compared to offer a more nuanced understanding of the role…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Reading Comprehension, Word Recognition, Multilingualism
Xi Yu; Frank Boers – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
There are grounds for believing that prompting language learners to infer the meaning of new lexical items is beneficial because inferring the meaning of lexical items and verifying one's inferences invites more cognitive investment than simply being presented with the meanings. However, concerns have been raised over the risk that wrong…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Inferences
