This study compared the use of strategies rereading, highlighting, and note-taking on levels comprehension, retention, learning from L2 texts. Nineteen intermediate students English (L2) participated in study. In phase 1, they studied three expository texts English, each with support a different strategy. After reading, answered an immediate recall true/false statements. Phase 2 took place week...

This report describes an investigation of the workings of expository technical texts with the goal of being able to automatically acquire and use some of the knowledge that they contain. The motivating question is: How does the presentation of material in college-level physics textbooks make it possible to solve problems based on that material? My hypothesis is that a lot of what is needed to s...

Two experiments explored concept map construction as a useful intervention to improve metacomprehension accuracy among 7 grade students. In the first experiment, metacomprehension was marginally better for a concept mapping group than for a rereading group. In the second experiment, metacomprehension accuracy was significantly greater for a concept mapping group than for a control group—a group...

Abstract Prior research has examined the impact of different cognitive predictors on students’ expository and narrative text comprehension. It become apparent that some variables predict comprehension in both genres, while are genre-specific predictors. However, effect reading motivation remains unclear. Thus, aim was to investigate which reading-related motivational characteristics universal v...

Learning concepts via instruction and expository texts is an important problem for modeling human learning and for making autonomous AI systems. This paper describes a computational model of the self-explanation effect, whereby conceptual knowledge is repaired by integrating and explaining new material. Our model represents conceptual knowledge with compositional model fragments, which are used...

Reading comprehension is the ability to create a mental representation of written text. It constitutes main mechanism through children incorporate new knowledge at school age. achievement has been systematically associated with oral and reading rate. Furthermore, both related inferences generation different linguistic abilities, like vocabulary syntax processing. In case text comprehension, als...

This study examined whether children’s reading rate, comprehension, and recall are affected by computer presentation of text. Participants were 60 grade five students, who each read two expository texts, one in a traditional print format and the other from a computer monitor, which used a common scrolling text interface. After reading each text, participants were asked to recall as much as they...

The identification of new versus given information within a text has been frequently investigated by researchers of language and discourse. Despite theoretical advances, an accurate computational method for assessing the degree to which a text contains new versus given information has not previously been implemented. This study discusses a variety of computational new/given systems and analyzes...