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Direct linkBilal Simsek; Bekir Direkci; Betül Koparan; Mehmet Canbulat; Mevlüt Gülmez; Emel Nalçacigil – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of the duration of students' augmented reality (AR) experience on reading comprehension and cognitive load in reading activities carried out with an augmented reality storybook. The participants are 134 secondary school students aged between 11 and 12 attending a school in Antalya. They were…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Reading Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Cognitive Processes
Zhao, Jian; Lin, Lijia; Sun, Jiangshan; Liao, Yuan – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2020
According to the current literature, it is unknown whether summarizing can enhance learning and engagement in an immersive environment. To fill this gap, we conducted an experimental study to investigate the potential effects of using summarizing strategy in an immersive virtual reality learning environment on comprehension, cognitive load, and…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Computer Simulation, Reading Comprehension, Cognitive Processes
Download full textKaplan-Rakowski, Regina; Gruber, Alice – Research-publishing.net, 2022
Many language learners lack the motivation to read complex texts. Because high-immersion Virtual Reality (VR) is increasingly reported to be highly motivating, the goal of our study was to compare English as a Second Language (ESL) learners' (N=79) motivation while reading a story with subtitles in VR (experimental group) versus reading the same…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Reading Motivation, Immersion Programs, Computer Simulation
McNamara, Danielle S. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
An overarching motivation driving my research has been to further our theoretical understanding of how readers successfully comprehend challenging text. This article describes the theoretical origins of this research program and my quest to understand comprehension processes through the use of technology. Coh-Metrix was developed to measure, and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Reading Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Educational Technology
McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2021
An overarching motivation driving my research has been to further our theoretical understanding of how readers successfully comprehend challenging text. This article describes the theoretical origins of this research program and my quest to understand comprehension processes through the use of technology. Coh-Metrix was developed to measure, and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Reading Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Educational Technology
Collentine, Karina – Hispania, 2016
Tasks provide engaging ways to involve learners in meaningful, real-world activities with the foreign language (FL). Yet selecting classroom tasks suitable to learners' linguistic readiness is challenging, and task-based research is exploring the relationship between learners' overall abilities (e.g., reading, grammatical) and the complexity and…
Descriptors: Reading Ability, Second Language Learning, Task Analysis, College Students
