Language and Comprehension - General
Roles of general versus second language (L2) knowledge in L2 reading comprehension
... L2 language, metacognitive awareness and L2 reading comprehension would differ across poor and good L2 ...readers, language-specific skill (vocabulary and syntactic awareness) was more important ...
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The contribution of general language ability, reading comprehension and working memory to mathematics achievement among children with English as additional language (EAL): an exploratory study
... the language ability (C-test) and SWRT alongside a measure of reading comprehension, which allows for a more in-depth investigation of the contribution of different aspects of language and reading ...
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The contribution of general language ability, reading comprehension and working memory to mathematics achievement among children with English as additional language (EAL): an exploratory study
... reading comprehension score, SWRT score and the language ability score were entered into the ...model. Language ability and SWRT were excluded in model 2, which comprises working memory and reading ...
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPREHENSION
... The general view of the industry and of energy experts is that there is plenty of oil, and real concern about the level of reserves, at least until 2050 in not ...
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Improving symbolic language comprehension
... foreign language (Council of Europe, 1995), in a similar way to what is called Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL or AICLE) at other educational ...(Immersion, Language in Content ...
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Idiom Comprehension in English as a Second Language
... two general characteristics: first of all, idiomatic expressions have a fixed word order which suggests that they are socially acceptable expressions; second, it is not possible to guess the meaning of an idiom ...
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Program Comprehension in Multi-Language Systems
... 5. Conclusions and future work We presented an approach to program understanding in multi-language systems which has been used to repre- sent the programming environment of the Aachener und M¨unchener insurance ...
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Listening comprehension and language as scaffolds for reading comprehension with secondary struggling readers
... Vaughn et al. (2013) utilized a text-focused instructional approach within a more rigorous intervention design with eighth graders in general education social studies classes. PACT employed a within-teacher ...
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The Significance of Listening Comprehension in English Language Teaching
... constructs general predictions based on general schemata and then looks for information to fit into these ...of comprehension (Carrell & Eisterhold, 1983 as cited in Pourhosein Gilakjani & Ahmadi, ...
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Broad Context Language Modeling as Reading Comprehension
... 5 Conclusion We constructed a new training set for LAMBADA and used it to train neural readers to improve the state of the art from 7.3% to 49%. We also pro- vided results with several other strong baselines and included ...
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A computerized test of speed of language comprehension unconfounded by literacy
... General Discussion Taken together, the results of these three studies lead us to be confident that this computerised task is tapping the same language comprehension skills as the Silly Sentences task ...
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The Impact of Topic Congruence on Second Language Reading Comprehension
... reading comprehension There have always been attempts to define memory and recall in different ...of language and language ...a general tendency to believe that remembering is like taking a ...
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Gesture production and comprehension in children with specific language impairment
... the comprehension task, and that to accurately identify the gesture children needed to integrate the verbal and visual ...indicate general processing limitation in the SLI group when attempting to integrate ...
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Quantity, Contrast, and Convention in Cross Situated Language Comprehension
... show the increase in performance as more training data is provided to the system. We compare our re- sults on videos with multiple objects to the perfor- mance of the system with objects presented one at a time and with ...
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Heuristics in Language Comprehension
... initial comprehension of QSA sentences of the form Every kid climbed a tree consists of a fast-and-frugal interpretation regarding the likely number of participants in the ( N 1 - V - N 2 ) event, and does not ...
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ENGLISH COMPREHENSION AND LANGUAGE GRADE
... In the view of the doctors writing to the magazine, the possible use of animals with highly developed sensory abilities in cancer diagnosis was worth investigating; surgeon John Church[r] ...
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ENGLISH COMPREHENSION AND LANGUAGE GRADE
... This first came to the attention of the medical profession in 1989, when the letters page of a medical journal described the case of a woman whose dog’s repeated sniffing at a lesion o[r] ...
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Natural Language Comprehension with the EpiReader
... CBT datasets. 1 EpiReader factors into two components. The first component extracts a small set of potential answers based on a shallow comparison of the question with its supporting text; we call this the Extractor. The ...
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Syntactic Adaptation in Language Comprehension
... how language users maintain or update their rep- resentations of the probability distributions rele- vant to language use, given new evidence—a phe- nomenon we will call ...that language users have ...
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Envisioning language: An exploration of perceptual processes in language comprehension
... information that can be flexibly sampled from during semantic processing. Based on this, we expected to find effects of flexibility in the visual cortex, including early visual areas. We used searchlight RSA to probe ...
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