Arranging peer-tutoring instruction to promote inference-making.
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DOI: 10.1002/jaba.895
Abstract: Peer-mediated instructional strategies (e.g., peer tutoring) have been effective at teaching academic responses in previous research. This study extended the literature by programming for inference-making, or derived relations. Across two experiments, researchers investigated the use… read more here.
Keywords: inference making; tutoring instruction; peer tutoring;
From words to text: inference making mediates the role of vocabulary in children’s reading comprehension
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DOI: 10.1007/s11145-017-9752-2
Abstract: AbstractWe examined the relationship between inference making, vocabulary knowledge, and verbal working memory on children’s reading comprehension in 62 6th graders (aged 12). The effect of vocabulary knowledge on reading comprehension was predicted to be… read more here.
Keywords: children reading; reading comprehension; inference making; vocabulary knowledge ... See more keywords
Inference making in young children: The concurrent and longitudinal contributions of verbal working memory and vocabulary.
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DOI: 10.1037/edu0000342
Abstract: Inference making is fundamental to the construction of a coherent mental model of a text. We examined how vocabulary and verbal working memory relate to inference development concurrently and longitudinally in 4- to 9-year-olds. Four… read more here.
Keywords: inference; memory; depth; inference making ... See more keywords
The neural development of pragmatic inference-making in natural discourse.
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DOI: 10.1111/desc.12678
Abstract: Older interlocutors are more likely than younger ones to make pragmatic inferences, that is, inferences that go beyond the linguistically encoded meaning of a sentence. Here we ask whether pragmatic development is associated with increased… read more here.
Keywords: premise; condition; neural development; inference making ... See more keywords
The role of linguistic and cognitive skills in reading Chinese as a second language: A path analysis modeling approach
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1131913
Abstract: This study examined the role of basic linguistic skills (vocabulary, syntax, orthography, and morphological awareness), basic cognitive skills (working memory), and higher-order cognitive skills (inference making and reading monitoring) in reading Chinese as a second… read more here.
Keywords: reading chinese; morphological awareness; cognitive skills; linguistic skills ... See more keywords