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Direct linkIvan D. Mardini G.; Christian G. Quintero M.; César A. Viloria N.; Winston S. Percybrooks B.; Heydy S. Robles N.; Karen Villalba R. – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Today reading comprehension is considered an essential skill in modern life, therefore, higher education students require more specific skills to understand, interpret and evaluate texts effectively. Short answer questions (SAQs) are one of the relevant and proper tools for assessing reading comprehension skills. Unlike multiple-choice questions,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Learning Strategies, Grading
Karakoç Öztürk, Basak – SAGE Open, 2021
The aim of this study was to determine the metaphorical perceptions of preservice Turkish teachers (PTTs) regarding the concept of ebook. In accordance with this aim, answers to the questions of "What are the metaphors used by PTTs for the concept of e-book?" and "Under which categories could the metaphors used by PTTs for the…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Books, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Download full textScharlau, Ingrid; Körber, Miriam; Karsten, Andrea – Frontline Learning Research, 2019
Although there is considerable research on and knowledge about students' conceptualizations of learning or academic practices and skills, the variability of these conceptualizations has been consistently neglected. In the present study, we address this variability in the field of academic reading with the help of a novel approach. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Reading Processes, Reading Comprehension
Toti, Usman Shah; Majed, Othman Abahussain – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
Reading involves both cognitive and psychological activities of combining both pre-existing cultural and linguistic knowledge. The reader has the ability to view the world in the light of his/her own cultural experiences which are constructed consciously or unconsciously, and may seem to be fruitful in text analysis and exploring the uncovered…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Schemata (Cognition), Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning
Hrdlicková, Zuzana – Advanced Education, 2021
It is evident from the PISA 2018 results that a trend in mean performance in reading has been declining in the Slovak Republic. The KEGA Project "Idioms in Business Communication", run at the Department of English Language, aims at improving reading literacy, widening formal and informal vocabulary and facilitating business…
Descriptors: Business English, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
George, Tim; Wiley, Jennifer – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
In order for a person to comprehend metaphoric expressions, do metaphor-irrelevant aspects of literal information need to be inhibited? Previous research using sentence-verification paradigms has found that literal associates take longer to process after reading metaphorical sentences; however, it is problematic to infer inhibition from this…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Figurative Language, Inhibition, Experiments
Angel, Rosalina Domínguez – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2014
The present article examines the outcomes derived from a task on intensive reading carried out by university students. The main goal is to analyze the frequency of use and the success of idiom solving strategies used by the subjects while reading. Additionally, our interest is to compare the above outcomes and the reading time scores of a group of…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Reading Rate, Reading Strategies, Retention (Psychology)
