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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
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Mumper, Micah L.; Gerrig, Richard J. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
While research has repeatedly found evidence that readers infer characters' emotions, we investigate three outstanding questions about the content and time course of such inferences. We ask whether even simple narratives give rise to emotion inferences, in what form such inferences are encoded into long-term memory, and whether they are uniquely…
Descriptors: Inferences, Emotional Response, Memory, Reading Processes
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Thuy Nguyen, Minh Thi; Pham, Thuy Thi Thanh – Language Learning Journal, 2022
The current study examines the role of instruction in developing L2 learners' ability to comprehend two types of implicatures: indirect refusals and indirect opinions. According to Taguchi (2005), these implicatures differ in the degrees of conventionality involved in producing them, hence requiring different degrees of processing effort on the…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Khamboonruang, Apichat – rEFLections, 2022
Although much research has compared the functioning between analytic and holistic rating scales, little research has compared the functioning of binary rating scales with other types of rating scales. This quantitative study set out to preliminarily and comparatively validate binary and analytic rating scales intended for use in formative…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Westerveld, Marleen F.; Filiatrault-Veilleux, Pamela; Paynter, Jessica – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2021
Background and aims: The purpose of the current exploratory study was to describe the inferential narrative comprehension skills of young school-age children on the autism spectrum who, as a group, are at high risk of significant and persistent reading comprehension difficulties. Our aim was to investigate whether the anticipated difficulties in…
Descriptors: Inferences, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Narration, Story Telling
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Namey, Emily; Guest, Greg; McKenna, Kevin; Chen, Mario – American Journal of Evaluation, 2016
Evaluators often use qualitative research methods, yet there is little evidence on the comparative cost-effectiveness of the two most commonly employed qualitative methods--in-depth interviews (IDIs) and focus groups (FGs). We performed an inductive thematic analysis of data from 40 IDIs and 40 FGs on the health-seeking behaviors of African…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Comparative Analysis, Interviews, Focus Groups
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Helfrich, Sara R.; Clark, Sarah K. – Reading Psychology, 2016
This study investigated differences in self-efficacy to teach literacy between two groups of pre-service teachers. The authors hypothesized that pre-service teachers enrolled in one program focusing on fewer grade levels (K-3) and requiring more literacy-focused courses would have higher self-efficacy than pre-service teachers enrolled in another…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Preservice Teachers, Self Efficacy, Literacy Education
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Sun, Jerry Chih-Yuan; Kuo, Cian-Yu; Hou, Huei-Tse; Lin, Yu-Yan – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
The purposes of this study were to provide a game-based anti-phishing lesson to 110 elementary school students in Taiwan, explore their learning behavioral patterns, and investigate the effects of the flow states on their learning behavioral patterns and learning achievement. The study recorded behaviour logs, and applied a pre- and post-test on…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Elementary School Students
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Sankaram, Kamala; Schober, Michael F. – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2015
How do readers who are able to post responses on a political blog ("interactive readers") differ in their navigation and comprehension from "noninteractive" readers who are not empowered to post? In this study, a nonpartisan political blog was populated with news content about the then-upcoming 2012 U.S. presidential election.…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Political Issues, Computer Mediated Communication, Comprehension
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Agustín Llach, Maria Pilar – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
The present paper presents a comparative study of the lexical profiles of young content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and traditional English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' written production. The different nature and amount of foreign language input received in these classes may have consequences in learners' lexical profiles in…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction