Recent studies that compared reading comprehension between print and digital displays found a disadvantage for digital reading. A separate line of research has shown that effective use of learning strategies and active learning tools (e.g. annotation tools: highlighting, underlining and notetaking) can improve reading comprehension. Here, the influence of annotation tools on comprehension and t...

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...

This study explored the effect of text cohesion on reading comprehension of challenging science texts among students with little topic-relevant knowledge. Introductory level psychology students, considered to have a low level of knowledge on the topic, read high and low cohesion versions of biology texts. After reading the texts, their comprehension of the texts was assessed with text-based or ...