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Oksa, Annishka; Kalyuga, Slava; Chandler, Paul – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2010
The reported study compared the instructional effectiveness of Modern English explanatory interpretations of Shakespearean play extracts integrated line by line into original Elizabethan English text, with a conventional unguided original text condition. Experiment 1 demonstrated that the explanatory notes group reported a lower cognitive load and…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Drama, Prior Learning, Program Effectiveness
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Akbulut, Yavuz – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2008
This study investigated factors affecting second/foreign language (L2) reading comprehension in a hypermedia environment within the theoretical framework of dual coding and cognitive load theories, and interactive models of L2 reading. The independent variables were reading ability, topic interest, prior topical knowledge, and the number of times…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Cognitive Style, English (Second Language), Correlation