Lexical semantic richness : effect on reading comprehension and on readers' hypotheses about the meanings of novel words
Purpose: This study investigates one possible reason for individual differences in vocabulary learning from written context. A Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) model is used to motivate the prediction of a causal relationship between semantic knowledge for words in a text and the quality of their hypo...
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University of Iowa
2015
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| Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1591 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5643&context=etd |