the absolute hegemony of international code of (academic) communication has resulted in the development and spread of the discoursal voice of the culture form which historical english has emerged, and, as a consequence, any violation from the generic conventions and thinking patterns born out of such a discourse has resulted in the deprivation of non-native thinkers form active participation in...

The authors consider the process of teaching learners reading digital texts as pedagogical support for their search activity. Taking into account psychophysiological regularities and psychological mechanisms a teacher gets an opportunity to simulate environment conditions form implications, formulate questions implement research new based on obtained results with help hypertextuality, multimedi...

BACKGROUND The use of 'easy-to-read' materials for people with intellectual disabilities has become very widespread but their effectiveness has scarcely been evaluated. In this study, the framework provided by Kintsch's Construction-Integration Model (1988) is used to examine (i) the reading comprehension levels of different passages of the Spanish text that have been designed following easy-to...

A quick search of the internet for books related to teaching reading in a second language will provide an interested party with 20 or more titles published within the last 3–4 years and seemingly countless older texts. Any number of these texts will almost certainly be useful in various ways to different scholars. Despite this abundance of useful texts on the subject however, Reading in a Secon...

Typically, human evaluation of NLG output is based on user ratings. We collected ratings and reading time data in a simple, low-cost experimental paradigm for text generation. Participants were presented corpus texts, automatically linearised texts, and texts containing predicted referring expressions and automatic linearisation. We demonstrate that the reading time metrics outperform the ratin...