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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Assessing the Relationship of Working Memory to L2 Reading: Does the Nature of Comprehension Process and Reading Span Task Make a Difference?
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Alptekin, Cem; Ercetin, Gulcan – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2009
Although an important role has been ascribed to working-memory capacity in reading comprehension, little consensus exists on its conceptualization, operationalization, and measurement except for its recognition as a limited-capacity processing and storage system. One specific problem in the measurement of working memory comes from researchers' use…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning, Measurement
Hypermedia Reading Strategies Employed by Advanced Learners of English
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Akyel, Ayse; Ercetin, Gulcan – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2009
This study investigated the strategies used by advanced learners of English while reading a hypermedia document in order to determine whether they are essentially different from those reading strategies reported in the literature for printed texts. Moreover, the role of prior knowledge about the topic was explored in relation to strategy use. Data…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Reading Strategies, Prior Learning, Hypermedia