Search results for "COMPREHENSION"

The interaction of language and thought in children's language acquisition: a crosslinguistic study

1997

The purpose of this research was to investigate the potential interaction of conceptual representations and linguistic systems in the process of language acquisition. Language–thought interactions were studied in 80 American, 48 Finnish and 48 Polish preschool children. The research focused on the conceptual and linguistic development of space and time. The spatial and temporal conceptual tasks were designed to measure the transition from experiential to inferential knowledge of space/time representations. In the linguistic domain, comprehension and production tests were used to evaluate the children's capacity to understand mono- and bi-referential location in space and time, where mono-re…

Mutual intelligibility among the sign languages of Belgium and the Netherlands

2015

AbstractIn an exploratory study of mutual intelligibility between the sign languages of the northern part of Belgium (Flemish Sign Language, VGT), the southern part of Belgium (French Belgian Sign Language, LSFB), and the Netherlands (Sign Language of the Netherlands, NGT), we tested the comprehension of VGT by signers of LSFB and NGT. In order to measure the influence of iconic structures (classifier constructions and constructed action) that linguistic analyses have shown to be similar across different sign languages, two genres were compared: narrative and informative signing. To investigate the effect of the overlap between the spoken languages surrounding the Dutch and Flemish Deaf com…

How adolescents navigate Wikipedia to answer questions / ¿Cómo navegan los adolescentes en Wikipedia para contestar preguntas?

2015

AbstractIn one experiment, we explored how high school students use hyperlink relevance cues while they navigate to answer questions from hypertexts. Current evidence has shown that students may navigate by either performing a deep semantic analysis of the relationship between the question and the existing hyperlinks, or by matching words in the question to words in the hyperlink labels. We focused on how students combine both cues during navigation, and how comprehension skills relate to the use of such cues. Our study revealed that 14 year old students (N = 53) selected hyperlinks by relying to a similar degree on both word matching and semantic overlap. Furthermore, when there was a conf…

Scanning and deep processing of information in hypertext: an eye tracking and cued retrospective think-aloud study

2016

When students solve problems on the Internet, they have to find a balance between quickly scanning large sections of information in web pages and deeply processing those that are relevant for the task. We studied how high school students articulate scanning and deeper processing of information while answering questions using a Wikipedia document, and how their reading comprehension skills and the question type interact with these processes. By analyzing retrospective think-aloud protocols and eye-tracking measures, we found that scanning of information led to poor hypertext comprehension, while deep processing of information produced better performance, especially in location questions. Thi…

Sobre el Anteproyecto de Código Procesal Civil Chileno de 2006. Una "intervención provocada"

2008

The author globally analyzes the draft bill of the Chilean Civil Procedural Code, contributing with some warnings and critiques to the pre-legislator from dijferent perspectives. Among them we find the constitutional configuration of the fundamental right of access to justice; the comprehension of the procedural-legal relationship and the faculties of the parts concerning the proceedings; the boundaries of some legal authorities concerning the evidence, etc.

Putting Bits and Pieces Together: Awareness of Text Structure in Jigsaw Reading

2013

Issues concerning Language Awareness have been debated for about 40 years (Hawkins 1999) and have brought about many interesting developments in the area of language teaching and learning. In the following text, the official definition and scope of language awareness studies are briefly presented. Then, language awareness within the framework of foreign text comprehension—a crossroad where different types of knowledge, linguistic and non-linguistic, and a variety of cognitive processes meet and interact—is discussed. Since text comprehension is such a complex process, it requires the readers to use various forms of language awareness. The study reported in the second part of the paper was d…

Continuity in early language development

1996

Inferential processes in readers with Down syndrome

2013

The aim of this work is to know if the source of the difficulty in making inferences, readers with Down syndrome, is in access to prior knowledge or constructing ideas from purely textual knowledge (based on Saldaña and Frith, 2002 for autism). Involved a sample of 20 students with Down syndrome and mild mental retardation (mean IQ = 60) and a control group of 20 children without cognitive deficits. They were matched as to their extent read metal age via Prueba de Evaluación del Retraso Lector (average 8 years). We created two experimental situations: a) subjects had to generate inferences based on physical knowledge, b) social inferences about knowledge. The ability to check and reaction t…

Psychological aspects in children affected by duchenne de boulogne muscular dystrophy.

2012

Impairment of intelligence in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients was described by Duchenne de Boulogne himself in 1868. Further studies report intelligence disorders with mayor impairment of memory. The aim of the present study was to assess the presence of affective and personality disorders in a group of children affected by DMD. Twenty six male DMD patients, mean age eleven and four months years old, were assessed for their affective and personality disorder. Only eight subjects had a total IQ below average with major difficulties in verbal and visual-spatial memory, comprehension, arithmetic and vocabulary. All the subjects presented some disorders: tendency to marginalization a…

Comprensión de textos expositivos académicos en e-book Reader y en papel: influencia del conocimiento previo de dominio y la aptitud verbal

2018

espanolResumen: En un estudio del que participaron 102 estudiantes universitarios, se comparo la comprension en la lectura de textos expositivos academicos impresos versus en formato de e-book Reader. Se examinaron los efectos del soporte, del conocimiento especifico de dominio previo del lector y la aptitud verbal. Asimismo se indagaron las actitudes de los estudiantes hacia los soportes textuales antes y despues de la experiencia. Los resultados sugieren que el e-book Reader beneficiaria a los lectores competentes, y/o que podria promover mayor actividad metacognitiva en los procesos de comprension. Asimismo, las opiniones hacia el e-book Reader cambiaron despues de la experiencia, aunque…