Abstract The use of texts is an indispensable resource for students’ learning, especially in science domains. While developing understanding a specific topic usually the main goal reading expository texts, important consideration how to best measure whether this has been reached. In study, we aimed analyze gains comprehension based on three chemistry and physics topics. By means pre–post design...

Теория смыслового развертывания текста в оппозиции адресант – адресат является актуальной современной антропоцентрической по своей онтологической сущности лингвистике. Проблема восприятия читателем исследуется XXI в. многими учеными с разных сторон, исходя из лингвистических аргументационных ресурсов и помощью смежных наук: когнитологии, философии, социологии, психологии т. д. Цель опираясь на ...

OBJECTIVES Age-related changes in the efficiency of various general cognitive mechanisms have been evoked to account for age-related differences between young and older adults in text comprehension performance. Using structural equation modeling, we investigate the relationship between age, working memory (WM), inhibition-related mechanisms, processing speed, and text comprehension, focusing on...

The current experiment investigated the effects of a dynamic spatial ability on comprehension of a geoscience text on plate tectonics and the causes of volcanic activity. 162 undergraduates (54% female) from a large public university who had little prior knowledge of this science content area were asked to learn about plate tectonics. Measures of spatial ability and working memory capacity were...

In this paper, we discuss the relative contribution of several theoretically relevant skills and abilities in accounting for variance in both word reading and text comprehension. We present data from the first and second waves of a longitudinal study, when the children were 7 to 8 years, and 8 to 9 years old. In multiple regression analyses, we show that there is a dissociation between the skil...

The article covers the issues concerning levels and criteria of preparatory department students' understanding scientific text. Teaching language presupposes work with texts at a proficiency level A1. When teaching how to text, one should consider its pragmatic, contents cognitive discourse functions. Understanding is multi-level psychological category, which determines foreign way reading Each...