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Sonia, Allison N.; Magliano, Joseph P.; McCarthy, Kathryn S.; Creer, Sarah D.; McNamara, Danielle S.; Allen, Laura, K. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2022
The constructed responses individuals generate while reading can provide insights into their coherence-building processes. The current study examined how the cohesion of constructed responses relates to performance on an integrated writing task. Participants (N = 95) completed a multiple document reading task wherein they were prompted to think…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Connected Discourse, Reading Processes, Writing Skills
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Kleijn, Suzanne; Pander Maat, Henk L. W.; Sanders, Ted J. M. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
Studies investigating the effect of connectives on comprehension have yielded different results, most likely because of differences in methodology and limited samples of texts and readers. We added and removed causal, temporal, contrastive, and additive connectives in 20 authentic Dutch texts. Dutch adolescents (n = 794) differing in reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Indo European Languages, Connected Discourse, Adolescents