Group investigation technique for better reading comprehension skill

The Acquisition of Reading Comprehension Skill

How do people acquire skill at comprehending what they read? That is the simple question to which we shall try to make a tentative answer. To begin, we have to acknowledge some complexities about the concept of reading comprehension and what it means to develop it.

Effects of Comprehension Skill on Inference Generation during Reading

Center on Teaching & Learning, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA; Department of Education and Child Studies, University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands; Department of Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA; Department of Psychology and School of Education and Social Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA; Department of Education...

Neural Skill Transfer from Supervised Language Tasks to Reading Comprehension

Reading comprehension is a challenging task in natural language processing and requires a set of skills to be solved. While current approaches focus on solving the task as a whole, in this paper, we propose to use a neural network ‘skill’ transfer approach. We transfer knowledge from several lower-level language tasks (skills) including textual entailment, named entity recognition, paraphrase d...

The Effects of Gender Differences and Schema-Based Pre-reading Activities on Reading Comprehension Skill

This study was designed to investigate the effects of gender and Schema-based pre-reading activities on the Iranian EFL learners’ reading comprehension. The sample consisted of 60 male and female students studying at second-grade high school in Abhar city. Two reading passages (“Charles Dickens and the Little Children”, and “Hic, Hic, Hic”) were randomly selected from second-grade English textb...

Translation: a bilingual metalinguistic skill that facilitates better comprehension