Search Results - "Discourse Processes"

The Timing and Construction of Preference: A Quantitative Study by Kendrick, Kobin H., Torreira, Francisco

“…Conversation-analytic research has argued that the timing and construction of preferred responding actions (e.g., acceptances) differ from that of dispreferred…”
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Predicting Text Comprehension, Processing, and Familiarity in Adult Readers: New Approaches to Readability Formulas by Crossley, Scott A., Skalicky, Stephen, Dascalu, Mihai, McNamara, Danielle S., Kyle, Kristopher

“…Research has identified a number of linguistic features that influence the reading comprehension of young readers; yet, less is known about whether and how…”
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Cognitive Processes in Discourse Comprehension: Passive Processes, Reader-Initiated Processes, and Evolving Mental Representations by van den Broek, Paul, Helder, Anne

“…As readers move through a text, they engage in various types of processes that, if all goes well, result in a mental representation that captures their…”
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Expectation-based Comprehension: Modeling the Interaction of World Knowledge and Linguistic Experience by Venhuizen, Noortje J., Crocker, Matthew W., Brouwer, Harm

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Evaluating whether stories can promote social cognition: Introducing the Social Processes and Content Entrained by Narrative (SPaCEN) framework by Mar, Raymond A.

“…Stories have long been theorized to influence how we perceive our social world and our peers. Empirical research on this topic has begun to grow, with many…”
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The Roles of Identity Conflict, Emotion, and Threat in Learning from Refutation Texts on Vaccination and Immigration by Trevors, Gregory J.

“…It is common for individuals to have misconceptions across a range of subject matters. Although interventions to correct misconceptions are largely successful,…”
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Knowledge Revision Processes in Refutation Texts by Kendeou, Panayiota, Walsh, Erinn K., Smith, Emily R., O'Brien, Edward J.

“…In the present set of experiments, we systematically examined the processes that occur while reading texts designed to refute and explain commonsense beliefs…”
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Emotions in Reading and Learning from Texts: Progress and Open Problems by Pekrun, Reinhard

“…Reading texts can prompt intense emotions, and these emotions profoundly influence learning from texts. I first discuss the findings from the eight studies…”
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Coherence Threshold and the Continuity of Processing: The RI-Val Model of Comprehension by O'Brien, Edward J., Cook, Anne E.

“…Common to all models of reading comprehension is the assumption that a reader's level of comprehension is heavily influenced by their standards of coherence…”
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Effects of Task Complexity and Planning Conditions on L2 Argumentative Writing Production by Rahimi, Muhammad, Zhang, Lawrence Jun

“…Investigating the effects of task design and implementation features on second language (L2) production is necessary, as the findings can provide potential…”
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Getting a Grip: The PET Framework for Studying How Reader Emotions Influence Comprehension by Bohn-Gettler, Catherine M.

“…Comprehension models do not often account for the multifaceted and emotionally charged nature of reading in real-world settings. In addition, studies of how…”
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Connective Comprehension in Adults: The Influence of Lexical Transparency, Frequency, and Individual Differences by Scholman, Merel, Marchal, Marian, Demberg, Vera

“…The comprehension of connectives is crucial for understanding the discourse relations that make up a text. We studied connective comprehension in English to…”
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Reading Contexts, Goals, and Decisions: Text Comprehension as a Situated Activity by Britt, M. Anne, Durik, Amanda, Rouet, Jean-François

“…The spread of digital technology has prompted an increase in the amount of written text that gets produced and disseminated daily, together with a…”
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From comprehension to learning and back again by van den Broek, Paul, Kendeou, Panayiota

“…During reading, we draw on our background knowledge to help us comprehend the text. But background knowledge also comes into play during reading in a different…”
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A Paradigm for the missing middle by Perfetti, Charles

“…This commentary highlights what I see as the most important of Walter Kintsch's many contributions to cognitive psychology and especially text comprehension…”
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Whom to believe? Fostering source evaluation skills with interleaved presentation of untrustworthy and trustworthy social media sources by Abel, Roman, Roelle, Julian, Stadtler, Marc

“…We investigated how the sequence of presenting social media sources in an unsupervised inductive learning setting supports the acquisition of source evaluation…”
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Comprehension: from clause to conspiracy narrative by Zwaan, Rolf A.

“…In this article, I outline the evolution of my research in the domain of narrative comprehension. I cover three phases: (1) the event-indexing model, which…”
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Here's Hoping It's not Just Text Structure: The Role of Emotions in Knowledge Revision and the Backfire Effect by Jacobson, Neil G., Thacker, Ian, Sinatra, Gale M.

“…Refutation texts are designed to facilitate the revision of inaccurate knowledge; however, studies have documented backfire effects wherein respondents become…”
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Document language moderates the text-belief consistency effect by Pilotek, Lisa, Karimi, Mohammad N., Richter, Tobias

“…When researching socioscientific topics, particularly on the Internet, readers face multiple texts that they must integrate into a coherent mental model…”
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The role of pointing gestures and eye gaze in second language vocabulary learning by Janjić, Paula, Arikan, Gozdem, Gudde, Harmen B., Murphy, Joseph J.C., Sivaram, Laksha, Coventry, Kenny R.

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