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Peer reviewedZwaan, Rolf A.; Brown, Carol M. – Discourse Processes, 1996
Examines the influence of language proficiency and comprehension skill on situation-model construction during narrative comprehension. Studies 12 college students who thought aloud reading French and English stories for comprehension and who performed a verb-clustering task after reading each text. Finds that the students generated more…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Inferences, Language Proficiency
