comprehension question
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comprehension
noun
uk/ˌkɒm.prɪˈhen.ʃən/us/ˌkɑːm.prəˈhen.ʃən/
the ability to understand completely and be familiar with a situation, ...
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question
noun
uk/ˈkwes.tʃən/us/ˈkwes.tʃən/
a sentence or phrase used to find ...
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(Definition ofcomprehensionandquestionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofcomprehension question
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The participant then pressed the space bar to obtain the next item which might be the next test sentence or acomprehensionquestion.
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To reduce random performance, a yes - nocomprehensionquestionwas interspersed every five to eight trials.
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The end of the sentence is presented as the fifth segment, and the sixth segment contains thecomprehensionquestion.
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Half of the test and filler items were followed by acomprehensionquestion.
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After the last word of the sentence is read, the participant presses a key to provide a response either to a grammaticality judgment or to acomprehensionquestion.
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The sentences were presented in a random order for each participant but thecomprehensionquestion, presented as a complete sentence, always followed the related sentence immediately.
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We believe that these results do not preclude the possibility that when an outcome was provided, the children were led to focus on it by thecomprehensionquestion.
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Marinis et al.'s (2005) experimental sentences were presented visually in a segment by segment fashion, and were followed by acomprehensionquestion.
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Participants read each sentence at their own pace and then pressed a button that could either cause the presentation of acomprehensionquestionor of another sentence.
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The cloze method turns a sentence into acomprehensionquestionby deleting a word for the student to fill in based on comprehending the rest of the text.
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A follow-upcomprehensionquestionis presented to ensure that participants indeed pay attention to the meaning of the sentences.
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Four comprehension questions followed the reading of each story.
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They are asked a set of comprehension questions after each story.
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The participants were instructed that the comprehension questions must be answered correctly for the responses to be scored.
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The same passages also serve as the input for reading and listening comprehension questions.
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Because we did not tell the control group participants the form that the comprehension questions would take, this reviewer's point remains a possibility.
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This was followed by two comprehension questions that were read aloud by the tester and responded to orally by the participant.
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This significantly affected comprehension (recall of target verbs and multiple-choice comprehension questions) and input processing (for m recognition though not for m production).
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In this and the next experiments, only data from participants who had an error rate lower than 37% on comprehension questions were included.
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Each presentation list also included 32 filler sentences and 34 comprehension questions.
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