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Fan, Zhewei – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Product-and process-oriented, this dissertation focuses on both the explicitness in translated texts and the implementation of explicitation in Chinese-English translation. In doing so, it provides a new cognitive framework for understanding explicitation as a strategic process. A specially designed study of the translation process facilitates the…
Descriptors: English, Chinese, Translation, Language Research
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Benjamin, Rebekah George – Educational Psychology Review, 2012
Largely due to technological advances, methods for analyzing readability have increased significantly in recent years. While past researchers designed hundreds of formulas to estimate the difficulty of texts for readers, controversy has surrounded their use for decades, with criticism stemming largely from their application in creating new texts…
Descriptors: Readability, Computer Science, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Processes
Dodd, William M. – 1984
A study examined the effect of five types of sentence faults on the method of information processing, recall ability, confidence rating, and comprehensibility rating of college freshman English students. The control text consisted of five passages and the accompanying comprehension questions exactly as they appear on the multiple choice Georgia…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Freshmen, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Singer, Harry, Ed.; Bean, Thomas W., Ed. – 1984
Papers in this report were presented at a conference on text characteristics, convened as part of the Learning from Text Project. The foreword describes the University of California and California State University Joint Projects Steering Committee project to determine the relationship between ability to learn from text and academic achievement,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Evaluation Criteria