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Direct linkTolins, Jackson; Zeamer, Charlotte; Fox Tree, Jean E. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2018
People overhearing referential communication understand more when they listen in on dialogues rather than monologues. Some have proposed this is because entrainment selects better referential expressions. In a corpus analysis, we considered the role of addressees in contributing to entrainment and measured the degree to which particular…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Listening Comprehension, Dialogs (Language), Literary Devices
McCarthy, Kathryn S.; Guerrero, Tricia A.; Kent, Kevin M.; Allen, Laura K.; McNamara, Danielle S.; Chao, Szu-Fu; Steinberg, Jonathan; O'Reilly, Tenaha; Sabatini, John – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2018
Background knowledge is a strong predictor of reading comprehension, yet little is known about how different types of background knowledge affect comprehension. The study investigated the impacts of both domain and topic-specific background knowledge on students' ability to comprehend and learn from science texts. High school students (n = 3,650)…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Reading Comprehension, High School Students, Pretests Posttests
Hamilton, Stephen T.; Freed, Erin M.; Long, Debra L. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
The goal of this study was to examine predictions derived from the Lexical Quality Hypothesis regarding relations among word decoding, working-memory capacity, and the ability to integrate new concepts into a developing discourse representation. Hierarchical Linear Modeling was used to quantify the effects of three text properties (length,…
Descriptors: Reading Ability, Decoding (Reading), Reading Comprehension, Reader Text Relationship
