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Eekhof, Lynn S.; Kuijpers, Moniek M.; Faber, Myrthe; Gao, Xin; Mak, Marloes; van den Hoven, Emiel; Willems, Roel M. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
This article explores the relationship between low- and high-level aspects of reading by studying the interplay between word processing, as measured with eye tracking, and narrative absorption and liking, as measured with questionnaires. Specifically, we focused on how individual differences in sensitivity to lexical word characteristics--measured…
Descriptors: Reading, Language Processing, Eye Movements, Individual Differences
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Hamedi, Seyyedeh Mina; Pishghadam, Reza – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
Given the fact that the process of engaging and interacting with the text is not only the function of a reader but also the text itself, the current study attempts to examine the role of the type of the word in the attentional engagement. More specifically, the present investigation aims to verify the interplay of sensorimotor information,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Visual Perception, Attention, Lexicology
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Lowder, Matthew W.; Choi, Wonil; Ferreira, Fernanda; Henderson, John M. – Cognitive Science, 2018
What are the effects of word-by-word predictability on sentence processing times during the natural reading of a text? Although information complexity metrics such as surprisal and entropy reduction have been useful in addressing this question, these metrics tend to be estimated using computational language models, which require some degree of…
Descriptors: Prediction, Scientific Concepts, Language Processing, Sentences
McNamara, Danielle S.; Roscoe, Rod; Allen, Laura; Balyan, Renu; McCarthy, Kathryn S. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Literacy is a critically important and contemporary issue for educators, scientists, and politicians. Efforts to overcome the challenges associated with illiteracy, and the subsequent development of literate societies, are closely related to those of poverty reduction and sustainable human development. In this paper, the authors examine literacy…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Comprehension, Language Processing, Discourse Analysis
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Newton, Jonathan – ELT Journal, 2017
Michael Swan and Catherine Walter (see EJ1142765) take issue with the current emphasis in the teaching of listening and reading on higher-order skills-and-strategies training. They argue that L2 learners typically already possess the relevant skills and strategies necessary for listening and reading in L2, and, by implication, can and do deploy…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Processing
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Gyogi, Eiko – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2019
This study examines the potential of translation activities as a means for introducing a discourse approach to teaching culture in the beginner-level language classroom. For this purpose, a translation session was implemented to a group of beginner-level learners of Japanese at a UK university. Analysis of classroom interaction and students'…
Descriptors: Translation, Discourse Analysis, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
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Clinton, Virginia; Carlson, Sarah E.; Seipel, Ben – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
Words can be informative linguistic markers of psychological constructs. The purpose of this study is to examine associations between word use and the process of making meaningful connections to a text while reading (i.e., inference generation). To achieve this purpose, think-aloud data from third-fifth grade students (N = 218) reading narrative…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Inferences, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Wang, Chin-An; Inhoff, Albrecht W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
Two experiments examined whether word recognition progressed from one word to the next during reading, as maintained by sequential attention shift models such as the E-Z Reader model. The boundary technique was used to control the visibility of to-be-identified short target words, so that they were either previewed in the parafovea or masked. The…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Eye Movements, Attention, Reader Text Relationship
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Perfetti, Charles; Stafura, Joseph – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2014
We reintroduce a wide-angle view of reading comprehension, the Reading Systems Framework, which places word knowledge in the center of the picture, taking into account the progress made in comprehension research and theory. Within this framework, word-to-text integration processes can serve as a model for the study of local comprehension…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Knowledge Level, Reading Processes, Reader Text Relationship
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Gunraj, Danielle N.; Drumm-Hewitt, April M.; Klin, Celia M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
According to theories of embodied cognition, a critical element in language comprehension is the formation of sensorimotor simulations of the actions and events described in a text. Although much of the embodied cognition research has focused on simulations of motor actions, we ask whether readers form simulations of story characters' linguistic…
Descriptors: Reader Text Relationship, Schemata (Cognition), Human Body, Imagery
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Friesen, Deanna C.; Joanisse, Marc F. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
The current study examined the nature of deaf readers' phonological processing during online word recognition, and how this compares to similar effects in hearing individuals. Unlike many previous studies on phonological activation, we examined whether deaf readers activated phonological representations for words as opposed to pseudohomophones.…
Descriptors: Deafness, Reader Text Relationship, Phonology, Language Processing
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Zasyekin, Serhiy – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2010
The article sketches the outlines of a theoretical framework for the analysis of translation of literary texts, viewed as psycho-semiotic phenomenon and based on evaluation of earlier attempts in this direction, and on the results of a psycholinguistic empirical study of translations. Central to this framework is the recent insight that the human…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Translation, Cognitive Psychology, Guidelines
Dolbey, Andrew Eric – ProQuest LLC, 2009
In this study I introduce BioFrameNet, an extension of the Berkeley FrameNet lexical database to the domain of molecular biology. I examine the syntactic and semantic combinatorial possibilities exhibited in the lexical items used in this domain in order to get a better understanding of the grammatical properties of the language used in scientific…
Descriptors: Semantics, Nouns, Grammar, Molecular Biology
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Rastle, Kathleen; Davis, Matthew H. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
Recent theories of morphological processing have been dominated by the notion that morphologically complex words are decomposed into their constituents on the basis of their semantic properties. In this article we argue that the weight of evidence now suggests that the recognition of morphologically complex words begins with a rapid morphemic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Morphology (Languages), Language Processing, Word Recognition
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McCrudden, Matthew T.; Schraw, Gregory – Educational Psychology Review, 2007
This article reviews the role of relevance in text processing. It argues that relevance instructions provided by instructors and texts help readers identify text segments that are germane to a reading goal. A taxonomy of relevance instructions is presented and four basic types of relevance manipulations are considered (i.e., targeted segments,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Models, Language Processing, Reading Instruction
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