‏‎comprehension monitoring in l1&l2‎‏

Monitoring Sentence Comprehension

Reciprocal Teaching of Comprehension-Fostering and Comprehension-Monitoring Activities

Two instructional studies directed at the comprehension-fostering and comprehension-monitoring activities of seventh grade poor comprehenders are reported. The four study activities were summarizing (self-review), questioning, clarifying, and predicting. The training method was that of reciprocal teaching, where the tutor and students took turns leading a dialogue centered on pertinent features...

Maternal comprehension of two growth monitoring charts in Sri Lanka.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the maternal comprehension of two different growth charts and to identify the group of mothers with poor comprehension. DESIGN An experimental prospective study. SETTING A child welfare clinic at the De Soysa Hospital for Women, Colombo, Sri Lanka. SUBJECTS 932 mothers were studied regarding their interpretation of the type of growth chart their infants had been a...

Capacity for self-monitoring reading comprehension in Elementary School.

Purpose To investigate the capacity for self-monitoring reading comprehension in Brazilian Elementary School students. Methods Fifty-three Elementary students in the 5th and 9th grades from two Public Schools in the city of São Paulo were assessed. They were selected based on their oral reading rate and grouped according to their performance in reading comprehension in the following categorie...

Comprehension monitoring in first and foreign language reading

This paper presents a study of comprehension monitoring of Chinese lower intermediate EFL (English as a foreign language) learners in first language (L1) and foreign language (FL) reading. It investigates the outcome of comprehension monitoring in L1 and FL reading, as well as the separate contributions of L1 reading proficiency and FL comprehension monitoring to FL reading proficiency. 126 stu...

Individual Differences in Comprehension Monitoring Ability during Reading

The goal of this experiment was to investigate readers’ ability to monitor their processing difficulty during reading and individual differences in this ability. Participants read a text one sentence at a time and made judgments of learning, judgments of sentence difficulty, or made no judgment. Participants’ metacognitive judgments were correlated with their processing difficulty only for high...