The purpose of this study was to determine the relation between reading and working
memory (WM) in the context of 3 major theories: the domain-specificity theory (debate) of …

The goal of this chapter is to provide the foundation toward developing a more
comprehensive model of reading comprehension. To this end, seven prominent …

Reading comprehension is one of the most complex cognitive activities in which humans
engage, making it difficult to teach, measure, and research. Despite decades of research in …

Coh-Metrix is among the broadest and most sophisticated automated textual assessment
tools available today. Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix …

Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the
linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use …

Computer analyses of text characteristics are often used by reading teachers, researchers,
and policy makers when selecting texts for students. The authors of this article identify …

In this article, I highlight the impact that the simple view of reading (SVR) has had on the field
of reading over the last 30 years. I argue that the SVR has led to many significant …

Current research has shown that comprehension can vary depending on text and question
types and that readers' word recognition and background knowledge may account for these …

The proposed multilevel framework of discourse comprehension includes the surface code,
the textbase, the situation model, the genre and rhetorical structure, and the pragmatic …

Coh-Metrix analyzes texts on multiple measures of language and discourse that are aligned
with multilevel theoretical frameworks of comprehension. Dozens of measures funnel into …