Text simplification, defined narrowly, is the process of reducing the linguistic complexity of a
text, while still retaining the original information and meaning. More broadly, text …

Both knowledge and discourse are fundamental notions in the humanities and social
sciences. It is therefore surprising that so little detailed research has been done on the …

Learning from texts is an important part of STEM education, but linguistic text features can
affect comprehension and learning. We synthesized 45 experimental studies that …

Science explanation videos, especially online ones, have become popular. They cover
nearly all topics from school science curricula. Teachers use them in a flipped classroom …

Connectives are cohesive devices that signal the relations between clauses and are critical
to the construction of a coherent representation of a text's meaning. The authors investigated …

This thesis addresses the lexical and psycholinguistic properties of copredication. In
particular, it explores its acceptability, frequency, crosslinguistic and electrophysiological …

In this conceptual essay, we offer rationales and evidence for critical components of a
working model of text complexity for the early grades. In the first three sections of the article …

Past research has shown that readers often fail to notice conflicts in text. In our present study
we investigated whether accessing information from multiple documents instead of a single …

Many young readers fail to construct a proper mental text representation, often due to a lack
of higher-order skills such as making integrative and inferential links. In an eye-tracking …

Reading comprehension is a complex skill that places significant demands on students,
beginning with elementary school and continuing through the secondary grades. In this …