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Download full textAzevedo, Bruno de; Oliveira, Davi Alves; Finger, Ingrid; Tomitch, Lêda Maria Braga – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2022
The ubiquity of multitasking has led researchers to investigate its potential costs for reading and learning (Clinton-Lisell, 2021). While some studies have not shown detrimental effects of multitasking for reading comprehension (Bowman et al., 2010; Cho et al., 2015; Pashler et al., 2013), one particular study has found a benefit of multitasking…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Reading Comprehension, Bilingualism, Electronic Publishing
Costa Ferreira, Jullyane Glaicy da; Ferrari-Neto, José – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
The aim of the present work was to investigate the processing of coreferential relations, focusing on their relationship with the working memory. In a reading process, it is essential that readers continuously perform mental operations that involve the working memory, such as storing, retrieving, and manipulating information. For this reason, it…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Language Processing, Reading Processes, Language Variation
Direct linkJaeger, Antonio; Eisenkraemer, Raquel Eloísa; Stein, Lilian Milnitsky – Educational Psychology, 2015
Several recent studies have shown that retrieval is more efficient than restudy in enhancing the long-term retention of memories. However, studies investigating this effect in children are still rare. Here, we report an experiment in which third-grade children initially read a brief encyclopaedic text twice and then either performed a cued recall…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Retention (Psychology), Long Term Memory, Cues
Fontanini, Ingrid; Tomitch, Leda Maria Braga – International Journal of English Studies, 2009
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between working memory capacity and L2 reading comprehension of both linear texts and hypertexts. Three different instruments were used to measure comprehension (recall, comprehension questions and perception of contradictions) and the Reading Span Test (Daneman & Carpenter, 1980) was…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Instruction
Tomitch, Leda Maria Braga – 1999
This study investigates the relationship between reading ability, working memory capacity, and readers' use and recall of the mechanism of prediction. Reading ability was measured by free recall and by comprehension questions, and working memory capacity was assessed by the Reading Span Test (Daneman and Carpenter, 1980). Twelve Brazilian speakers…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Tests, Foreign Countries
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2013), October 22-24, 2013, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by The University of North Texas (UNT), sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Short Term Memory
