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Mancilla-Martinez, Jeannette – AERA Open, 2020
A distinguishing feature of English learners (ELs) centers on coming from homes in which a language other than or in addition to English is used, but bilingualism itself is not a risk factor for low academic achievement. Yet in the United States, ELs' reading achievement continues to lag behind that of their English-proficient peers. In this…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, English Language Learners, Second Language Learning, Bilingualism
Multimodal Reading Comprehension: Curriculum Expectations and Large-Scale Literacy Testing Practices
Unsworth, Len – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2014
Interpreting the image-language interface in multimodal texts is now well recognized as a crucial aspect of reading comprehension in a number of official school syllabi such as the recently published Australian Curriculum: English (ACE). This article outlines the relevant expected student learning outcomes in this curriculum and draws attention to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests
Rafferty, Anna N., Ed.; Whitehill, Jacob, Ed.; Romero, Cristobal, Ed.; Cavalli-Sforza, Violetta, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2020
The 13th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2020) was originally arranged to take place in Ifrane, Morocco. Due to the SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) epidemic, EDM 2020, as well as most other academic conferences in 2020, had to be changed to a purely online format. To facilitate efficient transmission of…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Teaching Methods, Information Retrieval, Data Processing
Brause, Rita S. – 1979
Designed to assess comprehension of written ambiguous and polysemous structures, this instrument is a series of written statements that include varying degrees and types of ambiguity. In the first part of the test students are asked to identify (from a choice of three) semantically acceptable paraphrases for an initial sentence. Then students must…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Processing, Measures (Individuals)
Bruce, Bertram – 1979
A complete analysis of a story's structure must rely on more than a simple grammar of story components; it requires a consideration of the characters' plans as they are stated or implied in the story. Furthermore, these plans are recognized as the characters' beliefs, and beliefs about interactions among plans are crucial determinants of a story's…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Processing, Reading Comprehension
Moes, Mary A.; And Others – 1984
A study investigated the relationship between text organization and children's reading comprehension of expository material. Upgraded and downgraded versions of both macrostructures and microstructures were combined to produce four texts on the topic of insect-eating plants. Forty-three seventh grade students were randomly assigned to one of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 7, Language Processing
Gunnison, J. – 1983
Current research on information processing suggests that short term memory plays a central role in the sorting and manipulation of text information during reading. Because an entire text cannot be processed simultaneously, successive "chunks" or units of information enter the short term memory where they are compared to the reader's previous…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Processing, Long Term Memory
Langer, Judith A. – 1982
Using a text semantic framework, a two-year study examined the process by which readers construct meanings from standardized reading comprehension tests used as texts. The text analytic system described "ideal reader" interpretations of texts, allowing comparisons with real reader interpretations. Specific analyses described the ideal…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Expectation, Language Processing, Reading Comprehension

Wong, Bernice Y. L. – Review of Educational Research, 1985
Studies in self-questioning designed to improve students' prose processing are reviewed in the context of three theoretical perspectives: active processing perspective, metacognitive theory, and schema theory. The effects of self-questioning training on students' prose processing seem successful. Constraints of content knowledge and metacognitive…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Processing, Learning Theories, Literature Reviews
Crismore, Avon – 1984
An organizational framework consisting of the following four components is useful in exploring questions about improving textbooks: learner characteristics, learning activities, the critical task (for measuring student performance), and the nature of the materials. In considering learning characteristics and the materials, it is important to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Analysis, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education

Carver, Ronald P. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1993
Merges the Simple View of reading with rauding theory by advancing a revision, called Simple View II. Presents empirical evidence that, when the Simple View II is merged with rauding theory, the result is a theoretical framework which includes interrelationships among all of the important constructs involved in reading ability, for students in…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Language Processing
Chapman, L. John – 1980
Language studies examining the language-thought relationship are important as are those that study other psychological factors concerned with the storage of knowledge. Since language is a product of the social process, it is important to consider that the meaning intended by the sender of the message (author) may not be the meaning decoded by the…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education

Richgels, Donald J. – Journal of Educational Research, 1982
Two research areas, schema theory and linguistic theory, are described which have contributed to theories about language comprehension. Models of language comprehension conceptualized by Roger Schank, Carl Frederiksen, and Walter Kintsch are discussed in relation to the research and evaluated for practical use in reading instruction. (Author/PP)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Processing
Varnhagen, Connie K.; Goldman, Susan R. – 1984
To test three specific hypotheses about recall as a function of four categories of logical relations, a study was done to determine whether logical relations systems of prose analysis can be used to predict recall. Two descriptive passages of naturally occurring expository prose were used. Each text was parsed into 45 statements, consisting of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Connected Discourse
Townsend, David J. – 1983
Three sets of experiments compared skilled and unskilled college and school age (sixth through eighth grade) readers' processing of spoken and printed sentences in isolation and in story context. The two types of readers differed in their processing of the structural, thematic, and schematic properties of sentences in both reading and listening.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education