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Direct linkKarla K. McGregor; Ron Pomper; Nichole Eden; Margo Appenzeller; Timothy Arbisi-Kelm; Elaina Polese; Deborah K. Reed – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: The aim of the study was to determine the ability of children with developmental language disorder (DLD) to infer word class and meaning from text and to document variations by word class (noun, verb, adjective) and modality (listening, reading). We also asked whether the children could integrate global cues across the entire passage as…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Students with Disabilities, Language Impairments, Form Classes (Languages)
Roman, Diego; Jones, Francesca; Basaraba, Deni; Hironaka, Stephanie – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2016
The difficulties that students face when reading science texts go beyond understanding vocabulary and syntactic structures. Comprehension of science texts requires students to infer how these texts function as a unit to communicate scientific meaning. To help students in this process, science texts sometimes employ logical connectives (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Science Instruction, Form Classes (Languages), Inferences
Brunyé, Tad T.; Ditman, Tali; Giles, Grace E.; Holmes, Amanda; Taylor, Holly A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Readers differentially adopt an agent's perspective as a function of pronouns encountered during reading. The present study assessed the reliability of this effect across narrative contexts and self-reported variation in levels of engagement during reading. Experiment 1 used an extended sample (N = 263) and replicated an interactive influence of…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Reading Processes, Reliability, Form Classes (Languages)
Jones, Natasha; McDavid, Justin; Derthick, Katie; Dowell, Randy; Spyridakis, Jan – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2012
Several government agencies are seeking quality improvement in environmental policy documents by asking for the implementation of Plain Language (PL) guidelines. Our mixed-methods research examines whether the application of certain PL guidelines affects the comprehension and perceptions of readers of environmental policy documents. Results show…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Reading Comprehension, Policy, Environmental Standards
Cozijn, Reinier; Noordman, Leo G. M.; Vonk, Wietske – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
The issue addressed in this study is whether propositional integration and world-knowledge inference can be distinguished as separate processes during the comprehension of Dutch "omdat" (because) sentences. "Propositional integration" refers to the process by which the reader establishes the type of relation between two clauses…
Descriptors: Sentences, Sentence Structure, Indo European Languages, Word Order
Rai, Manpreet K.; Loschky, Lester C.; Harris, Richard Jackson; Peck, Nicole R.; Cook, Lindsay G. – Language Learning, 2011
Although stress is frequently claimed to impede foreign language (FL) reading comprehension, it is usually not explained how. We investigated the effects of stress, working memory (WM) capacity, and inferential complexity on Spanish FL readers' inferential processing during comprehension. Inferences, although necessary for reading comprehension,…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Reading Comprehension, Photography, Form Classes (Languages)
Taylor, Lawrence J.; Lev-Ari, Shiri; Zwaan, Rolf A. – Brain and Language, 2008
Verbal descriptions of actions activate compatible motor responses [Glenberg, A. M., & Kaschak, M. P. (2002). Grounding language in action. "Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 9", 558-565]. Previous studies have found that the motor processes for manual rotation are engaged in a direction-specific manner when a verb disambiguates the direction of…
Descriptors: Sentences, Form Classes (Languages), Experimental Psychology, Inferences
