Inferential Comprehension: The Effects of Text Source, Decoding Ability, and Mode

1985 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jobeth Allen
Keyword(s):  
Inferential Comprehension ◽  
Decoding Ability

Preliminary Investigation of Transfer between Single-Word Decoding Ability and Contextual Reading Comprehension by Poor Readers in Grade Six

1980 ◽  
Vol 51 (3_suppl2) ◽  
pp. 1271-1281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay S. Blanchard
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Poor Readers ◽  
Specific Training ◽  
Single Word ◽  
Word Decoding ◽  
Narrative Prose ◽  
Inferential Comprehension ◽  
Decoding Ability

The study sought to investigate transfer between single-word decoding skill and contextual reading comprehension using 60 sixth grade pupils classified as 30 poor and 30 very poor readers. There were two training groups, content-specific and non-content-specific. One group received single-word decoding training, which led to decoding mastery of all words to be read in narrative prose passages and the accompanying literal and inferential comprehension questions. The other group learned to identify and pronounce words, equal in difficulty and number to those of the content-specific group but never a part of the passages and questions for the study. Pupils given content-specific training answered significantly more literal and inferential questions correctly than did those given non-content-specific training. It is suggested that there is transfer between single-word decoding skill and contextual, literal and inferential comprehension.

scholarly journals The role of illustrations in children’s inferential comprehension

2010 ◽  
Vol 105 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith M. Pike ◽  
Marcia A. Barnes ◽  
Roderick W. Barron
Keyword(s):  
Inferential Comprehension

Nonverbal Affective Decoding Ability in Children with Autism and in Typical Preschoolers

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERTS S. FELDMAN ◽  
GAIL G. McGEE ◽  
LEESA MANN ◽  
PHILLIP STRAIN
Keyword(s):  
Children With Autism ◽  
Decoding Ability

scholarly journals Attractor states, control parameters, and co-adaptation in instructed L2 inferential comprehension: a design-based research study of a critical reading intervention

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 463-492
Author(s):  
Moisés Damián Perales Escudero
Keyword(s):  
Reading Intervention ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Control Parameters ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Design Based Research ◽  
Instructional Needs ◽  
Rhetorical Genre ◽  
L1 And L2 ◽  
Inferential Comprehension

Previous L1 and L2 research on inferential comprehension has tended to follow a quantitative orientation. By contrast, L2 research on critical reading is qualitative and tends to ignore inferences. This paper presents a qualitative, design-based study of a critical reading intervention focused on promoting generative rhetorical inferences and investigating co-adaptation and emergence of new meaning-making capacities. Complexity theory (CT) constructs were used to research processes of co-adaptation between the participants' comprehension and the teacher-researcher's understanding of learning and instructional needs. Identification of attractor states and control parameters in classroom discourse were used to explore unpredicted factors influencing the participants' inferential comprehension and further refine the intervention. The results indicate that rhetorical genre knowledge acted as a control parameter driving the students' comprehension to attractor states characterized by implausible inferences, and that this knowledge explains the emergence of pragmatic meaning (rhetorical inferences) from semantic meaning. The paper illustrates the usefulness of CT constructs in doing design-based research qualitatively in a manner that informs both theory and practice.

scholarly journals Reading Fluency in Children and Adolescents Who Stutter

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 1595
Author(s):  
Mona Franke ◽  
Philip Hoole ◽  
Ramona Schreier ◽  
Simone Falk
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Reading Fluency ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Matched Control ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Articulation Rate ◽  
Prosodic Phrasing ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Prosodic Boundaries ◽  
Decoding Ability

Speech fluency is a major challenge for young persons who stutter. Reading aloud, in particular, puts high demands on fluency, not only regarding online text decoding and articulation, but also in terms of prosodic performance. A written text has to be segmented into a number of prosodic phrases with appropriate breaks. The present study examines to what extent reading fluency (decoding ability, articulation rate, and prosodic phrasing) may be altered in children (9–12 years) and adolescents (13–17 years) who stutter compared to matched control participants. Read speech of 52 children and adolescents who do and do not stutter was analyzed. Children and adolescents who stutter did not differ from their matched control groups regarding reading accuracy and articulation rate. However, children who stutter produced shorter pauses than their matched peers. Results on prosodic phrasing showed that children who stutter produced more major phrases than the control group and more intermediate phrases than adolescents who stutter. Participants who stutter also displayed a higher number of breath pauses. Generally, the number of disfluencies during reading was related to slower articulation rates and more prosodic boundaries. Furthermore, we found age-related changes in general measures of reading fluency (decoding ability and articulation rate), as well as the overall strength of prosodic boundaries and number of breath pauses. This study provides evidence for developmental stages in prosodic phrasing as well as for alterations in reading fluency in children who stutter.

scholarly journals A Research on the effect of social media on tendency to entrepreneurship and business establishment (Case Study: Active Iranian Entrepreneurs in Social Media)

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masoud Tosifyan ◽  
Saeed Tosifyan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Pearson Correlation Test ◽  
Kolmogorov Smirnov ◽  
Business Establishment ◽  
Descriptive Survey ◽  
Inferential Comprehension ◽  
Smirnov Test

This research was done with the aim to investigate the effect of social media on tendency to entrepreneurship and business establishment. The aim of applied research and methods used in this survey was a descriptive survey research. A standard questionnaire was used to collect relevant data in this study. The reliability of each questionnaire was estimated 0.779, 0.806 and 0.798. The population study is Iranian entrepreneurs who are active in social media and number of them is uncertain; A sample of 120 active Iranian entrepreneurs were selected as target and a questionnaire was distributed among these individuals. To collect the information and necessary data to evaluate the hypotheses of the research, a questionnaire and SPSS and LISREL software were evaluated.  At inferential comprehension level, techniques of Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for being normal, Pearson correlation test and structural equation modelling were used to test the hypotheses. Based on the results, the hypotheses were accepted.

Sex, Sex-Role, and Machiavellianism as Correlates of Decoding Ability

1990 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 243-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorna J. Simon ◽  
Patricia L. Francis ◽  
John P. Lombardo
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Decoding Ability

The present study examined the relationships of sex, sex-role and Machiavellianism to the ability to decode adult facial expressions. 80 undergraduates, classified into traditional, cross-sex, androgynous or undifferentiated sex-role categories based on scores on Bern's inventory, were asked to view slides of adults posing different facial expressions and asked to choose which emotion was being expressed. Subjects were given the Machiavellianism V scale to complete. Neither sex nor sex-role significantly influenced decoding ability; however, Machiavellianism was negatively related to the ability to decode facial expressions.

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