We investigated the effects of readers' goals on inference generation and memory for expository text. College students (N = 82) read texts for the purpose of either study or entertainment. On-line inference generation was recorded via think-aloud procedures, and off-line memory was assessed via free recall. Reading goal strongly influenced inferential activity: Readers with a study goal produce...

Abstract Reading comprehension is an essential skill for learning in general and science classes. Problems with reading might hinder students’ participation science. Text includes specific language features that distinguishes it from narrative text, so should instruction be part of teaching science? The direct inferential mediation (DIME) model subsumes factors influence comprehension. It was t...

In this paper, I examine the role of intentional and informational structure in enabling a system to generate coherent multi-sentential texts in interactive settings. I review the plan-based model of discourse generation that I and my colleagues have developed, and examine the role of the speaker's communicative plans in generating expository text in an interactive environment. I provide exampl...

We examined the questions college students ask when everyday devices malfunction. Our investigation of the explanatory reasoning processes is organized around the central theme of question asking. PREG, a model of human question asking, predicts when and what types of questions are asked by humans while comprehending expository texts. PREG has two salient predictions. First, deep comprehenders ...

The importance of reading proficiency in a second language (L2) is growing worldwide. Reading L2 involves many questions about the abilities comprehension, including metacomprehension, core ability native speakers (L1) that allows them to be aware their comprehension level and regulate learning. However, its link has not been sufficiently researched. This study examines relationship between sco...

Introduction Anaphora has an important function in text comprehension. The processes of anaphoric inference are to make local coherence among sentences. The coherence constructed from several variables (e.g. Lee, 1993). The first variable is an anaphora type: noun phrase, pronoun or ellipsis. Another variable is the properties of antecedents: syntactic, semantic, or pragmatic. Yet another varia...

We propose a strategy for the semiautomatic generation of learning material for reading-comprehension tests, guided by semantic relations embedded in expository texts. Our approach combines methods from the areas of information extraction and paraphrasing in order to present a language teacher with a set of candidate multiple-choice questions and answers that can be used for verifying a languag...