reading comprehension
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreadingandcomprehension
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reading
noun
uk/ˈriː.dɪŋ/us/ˈriː.dɪŋ/
the skill or activity of getting information ...
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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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(Definition ofreadingandcomprehensionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Readingcomprehensionappears at the bottom part of the figure.
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Readingcomprehensionresearch continues to reflect two different traditions, sentence parsing and text comprehension.
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It is automatically available to the language processor and affects language processing in real-timereadingcomprehension.
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The relations between children'sreadingcomprehension, working memory, language skills and components of reading decoding in a normal sample.
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The effects of segmenting written discourse on thereadingcomprehensionof low- and high-performance readers.
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Thirty-sevenreadingcomprehensionitems selected from the two tests were administered to a group of ninety-three university students in both passage-out and passage-in conditions.
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Areadingcomprehensionand vocabulary test3 was administered to assess the participant's reading proficiency and vocabulary knowledge.
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However, there were no positive results which might suggest transfer of such gains to higher-orderreadingcomprehension.
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The textreadingcomprehensiontest was administered, in accordance with the standard administration procedure, collectively.
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Readingcomprehensionis not exclusively reliant upon phonological representation.
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A number of studies have considered the relations between syntactic awareness andreadingcomprehension.
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Syntactic awareness has been hypothesized to relate specifically to both word reading andreadingcomprehension.
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Readingcomprehensionand reading related abilities in adolescents with reading disabilities and attentiondeficit0hyperactivity disorder.
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Thereadingcomprehensiontest has a mean score of 100 and a standard deviation of 15.
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In contrast to these single-word tasks, studies using text reading have testedreadingcomprehension.
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Readingcomprehensiondifficulties: processes and intervention (pp. 167 - 192).
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The authors used areadingcomprehensiontest to gather quantitative data.
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We found that noise annoyance did not mediate the link between noise exposure andreadingcomprehension.
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Two of the literacy measures assessed phonics skills (word attack and letter-word identification), one assessedreadingcomprehension(passage comprehension), and two assessed writing (proofing, dictation).
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