This article reports on the reading comprehension crisis of older students in the middle and high school grades in our nation. Its goal is to establish a common foundation for intervention by educators and clinicians alike, by providing a brief description of the state of the field in comprehension theory. In particular, the Kintsch construction–integration theory of comprehension is described ...

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut

Reading comprehension is widely agreed to be not one, but many things. At the least, it is agreed to entail cognitive processes that operate on many different kinds of knowledge to achieve many different kinds of reading tasks. Emerging from the apparent complexity, however, is a central idea: Comprehension occurs as the reader builds one or more mental representations of a text message (e.g., ...

the present study seeks to investigate the potentiality of the translation task as a testing method for measuring reading comprehension. to achieve this objective, two types of translation tests, open-ended and multiple-choice tests, and two types of reading comprehension tests, multiple-choice reading comprehension and open-ended cloze tests were developed in this study. the reliability of the...

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The goal of this experiment was to investigate readers’ ability to monitor their processing difficulty during reading and individual differences in this ability. Participants read a text one sentence at a time and made judgments of learning, judgments of sentence difficulty, or made no judgment. Participants’ metacognitive judgments were correlated with their processing difficulty only for high...