Abstract In order to have a better understanding of the nature reading behavior, it is quite essential scrutinize underlying assumptions two competing theories: componential approach and unitary hypothesis see how this reflected on testing skills. As result, current study was aimed at broadening existing knowledge horizon by trying identify if there relationship in overall scores learners diffe...

We propose a novel neural attention architecture to tackle machine comprehension tasks, such as answering Cloze-style queries with respect to a document. Unlike previous models, we do not collapse the query into a single vector, instead we deploy an iterative alternating attention mechanism that allows a fine-grained exploration of both the query and the document. Our model outperforms state-of...

A significant number of neural architectures for reading comprehension have recently been developed and evaluated on large cloze-style datasets. We present experiments supporting the emergence of “predication structure” in the hidden state vectors of these readers. More specifically, we provide evidence that the hidden state vectors represent atomic formulas Φ[c] where Φ is a semantic property ...

We present a resource-lean neural recognizer for modeling coherence in commonsense stories. Our lightweight system is inspired by successful attempts to modeling discourse relations and stands out due to its simplicity and easy optimization compared to prior approaches to narrative script learning. We evaluate our approach in the Story Cloze Test1 demonstrating an absolute improvement in accura...

After elaborating the definition of working memory, the relationship between short-term memory and working memory, chunking in SLA and the relationship between short-term memory and chunking, this paper proves the importance of chunking through the experiment: the students’ capacity in fast reading, reading in depth, listening and cloze from experimental group was affected by vocabulary depth t...

one of the most problematic areas in foreign language learning is collocation. it is often seen as arbitrary and an overwhelming obstacle to the achievement of nativelike fluency. current second language (l2) instruction research has encouraged the use of collaborative output tasks in l2 classrooms. this study examined the effects of two types of output tasks (editing and cloze) on the learning...

this study aimed at investigating differential item functioning (dif) on the special english test of the iranian national university entrance exam (inuee). the effect of gender and subject area was taken into account. the study utilized one-parameter irt model with a sample of 36000 students who sat for the inuee special english test in 2004 and/or 2005. the findings confirmed the presence of d...

Abstract In order to have a better understanding of the nature reading behavior, it is quite essential scrutinize underlying assumptions two competing theories: componential approach and unitary hypothesis see how this reflected on testing skills. As result, current study was aimed at broadening existing knowledge horizon by trying identify if there relationship in overall scores learners diffe...

Este artigo resulta de pesquisa, com apoio na Psicolinguística, que teve como objetivo examinar a compreensão leitora alunos do 9º ano Ensino Fundamental II ao 3º Médio, considerando escolaridade, instrumentos e questões. Os sujeitos da pesquisa foram 74 distribuídos nesses anos, uma escola pública cidade Porto Alegre (RS/Brasil). A coleta dados foi realizada utilizando testes no formato Questi...