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Mohamed Sami Wichka – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
The present study sets out to address a critical academic feature necessary to understand research articles (RAs) through investigating foreign language (FL) Tunisian doctoral students' awareness of the kind of relationship between text, writer, and readership in English research articles across three distinct disciplines: Linguistics, Economics,…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Reading Processes, English for Academic Purposes, Chemistry
Takshak Desai – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Reading comprehension can be analyzed from three points of view: Semantics, Assessment, and Cognition. Here, Semantics refers to the task of identifying discourse relations in text. Assessment involves utilizing these relations to obtain meaningful question-answer pairs. Cognition means categorizing questions according to their difficulty or…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Semantics, Questioning Techniques, Language Processing
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Kelso, Katrina; Whitworth, Anne; Leitão, Suze – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2022
This study aimed to profile the sublexical, lexical, and text level language skills, and cognitive processes of a sub-group of children with poor reading comprehension known as poor comprehenders. An assessment protocol was developed to assess each of the components from Perfetti and Stafura's Reading Systems Framework. A comprehensive profile was…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Oral Language, Reading Comprehension, Profiles
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Kaivanpanah, Shiva; Alavi, Sayyed Mohammad – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2008
The role of grammatical knowledge in inferencing word meaning has not received proper attention in L2 research. Addressing this issue, the present paper provides research-based and introspective think-aloud data to examine the contribution of grammatical knowledge to inferencing the meaning of unknown words. It addresses (a) the effects of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Grammar, Linguistics, English (Second Language)
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McVicker, Claudia J. – Reading Teacher, 2007
Teachers can use comics for reading instruction by capitalizing on their colorful graphic representation. Technology and reading are wed during the use of the Internet, and readers must rely on their visual literacy skills--a group of vision competencies people can hone for comprehension. This article reports on strategies for developing visual…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Cartoons, Text Structure, Reading Skills