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Reading History in English: Discourse Analysis and the Experience of Native and Non-Native Readers
A. D. Cohen,J. Fine +1 more
- Vol. 16, pp 55-74
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The article was published on 1978-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 6 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Reading (process) & Discourse analysis.read more
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Vocabulary elaboration in teachers' speech to L2 learners
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the characteristics of the teachers' speech when elaborating vocabulary, with a view to determining which characteristics would be helpful and which harmful to the students' comprehension and acquisition of vocabulary.
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The Role of Conjunctions in L2 Text Comprehension
TL;DR: This paper found that the ability to realize the nature of logical relationships within local contexts is a necessary but not sufficient component of comprehension of such relations in extended discourse, with increased proficiency, L2 learners improve their ability to utilize and infer logical relationships.
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Assessing Learners" Comprehension of Logical Connectives in L2 Texts
TL;DR: The current paper summarizes the major findings of the research on the role of discourse markers in text processing and presents two test formats that could be used to measure students’ understanding of conjunctions as text structure markers: a ‘paraphrase’ judgment task and text diagrams.
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A Comparative Study between the Performance of Iranian High and Low Critical Thinkers on Different Types of Reading Comprehension Questions
TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of high and low critical thinkers on factual, referential, and inferential reading comprehension questions was analyzed using the 16th version of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS).
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Pre-Reading and the use of Advance Organisers in L2 Reading Instruction
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe an experiment in the use of one category of prereading activity, advance organizers, with a population of L2 learners (L2-French; L1-English) at three proficiency levels.