Exploring generalisation following treatment of language deficits in aphasia can provide insights into the functional relation of the cognitive processing systems involved. In the present study, we first review treatment outcomes of interventions targeting sentence processing deficits and, second report a treatment study examining the occurrence of practice effects and generalisation in sentenc...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of various online techniques (word reference, media, and vocabulary games) on reading comprehension as well as vocabulary comprehension and production. For this purpose, 60 language learners were selected and divided into three groups, and each group was randomly assigned to one of the treatment conditions. In the first session of tre...

In this contribution we present a Learner Model (LM) of Historical Text Comprehension (HTC), which infers the cognitive profile of learner’s global comprehension concerning the recognition or not of the three fundamental cognitive categories: action, state and event. Moreover the LM infers the profile descriptor, which displays the learner’s learning difficulties. The diagnostic module of the L...

This study explored the effect of text cohesion on reading comprehension of challenging science texts among students with little topic-relevant knowledge. Introductory level psychology students, considered to have a low level of knowledge on the topic, read high and low cohesion versions of biology texts. After reading the texts, their comprehension of the texts was assessed with text-based or ...

The “Simple View of Reading” proposes that reading comprehension could be predicted by the product of decoding and linguistic comprehension. A somewhat modified version of this model suggests that the relationship between decoding and linguistic comprehension should be additive rather than multiplicative. This research is comprised of two studies. The first study compared the efficacy of the tw...

Software repositories that provide a basis for software comprehension or reengineering tools usually have to represent a huge number of documents of diierent types bound into a web of many kinds of relationships. The exibility and the structural properties of a software repository are crucial for its use. This paper presents a repository approach that allows to set up, ll and update a software ...