Gated-Attention Readers for Text Comprehension

The Effect of Self-Regulation on Improving EFL Readers’ Ability to Make Within-Text Inferences

Self-regulation is the ability to regulate one’s cognition, behavior, actions, and motivation strategically and autonomously in order to achieve self-set goals including the learning of academic skills and knowledge. Accordingly, self-regulated learning involves self-generated and systematic thoughts and behaviors with the aim of attaining learning goals. With that in mind, this study aimed to ...

Problem-solution Structures in Persuasive Texts: Effects on Attention, Comprehension, and Yielding

This study addresses the question of how problem-solution structures influence the processing of persuasive texts. In Experiment 7, 48 students read ads containing problem, solution, and company information on a computer. The position of the company information was varied: It came either before the problem and solution, between these two parts, or after them. Ads starting with problem informati...

87 - 52 Text Organization and Comprehensibility in Technical Writing

Technical texts often introduce scientific principles by deriving the principle prior to stating the principle itself. This "proof-first" organization violates writing guidelines suggested by current text learning theories. The current research compared the effects on comprehension of this type of structure with its logical alternative, a "principle-first" structure. Results indicate that reade...

Reading Comprehension Deficits of Readers with ADHD: Text Processing, Inference Generation and Working Memory

High-Performing Readers Underestimate Their Text Comprehension: Artifact or Psychological Reality?

We focused on the controversy whether high-performing readers consistently underestimate their comprehension or are prone to detrimental overestimations as much as less skilled readers are. Therefore, we conducted an experiment (N = 105 university students) to investigate judgment bias as a function of reading skill and text difficulty in terms of text cohesion. Results showed that the easy tex...