Exploring Deep and Referential Cohesion and its Effects on Adolescent Readers’ Comprehension Processing

EasyChair Preprint 3827

Abstract

Texts vary. Thus, accordingly, do different texts encourage certain types of online comprehension processing? This presentation illuminates how science texts with varying levels of cohesion may contribute to the online comprehension processing of seventh grade readers during a think-aloud task. Our analyses illustrate how students’ inference generation differed in science texts with varying degrees of deep and referential cohesion. Implications are drawn about the effects of text cohesion for online inference generation in adolescents.

Keyphrases: Deep cohesion, Online comprehension processing, adolescent, referential cohesion, text cohesion

@booklet{EasyChair:3827,
  author    = {Amanda Dahl and Sarah Carlson and Maggie Renken and Erin Reynolds},
  title     = {Exploring Deep and Referential Cohesion and its Effects on Adolescent Readers’ Comprehension Processing},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 3827},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2020}}