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Kalyuga, Slava; Law, Yin Kum; Lee, Chee Ha – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2013
The study investigated the effectiveness of causal words embedded in Chinese texts to explicitly indicate causal links between the described events. Primary school students with different levels of reading expertise participated in the experiment that compared an embedded casual-words format with the original no-causal-words format. An interaction…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Schools, Internet
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Oksa, Annishka; Kalyuga, Slava; Chandler, Paul – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2010
The reported study compared the instructional effectiveness of Modern English explanatory interpretations of Shakespearean play extracts integrated line by line into original Elizabethan English text, with a conventional unguided original text condition. Experiment 1 demonstrated that the explanatory notes group reported a lower cognitive load and…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Drama, Prior Learning, Program Effectiveness