Multilingual Text Comprehension: Cognitive, Developmental, and Educational Aspects

The book explores the impact of working and long-term memory, metamemory, inference making, and gist building on comprehension performance, as well as the role of first and multilingual language proficiency and tasks on specific component processes of text comprehension. It aims to present a state-of-the-art overview of the field to inform researchers and students of various disciplines and practitioners to improve their understanding of how to foster multilingual text comprehension.

Format: Hardback
Length: 263 pages
Publication date: 15 November 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

Research on monolingual text processing has provided a wide range of results and theoretical explanations of how texts are processed. However, this book extends the current trend to focus solely on reading comprehension by extensively exploring listening comprehension. Comprehensive presentations of research on children's listening comprehension allow for a broader developmental perspective, reaching preschool years. While text comprehension is essential in educational settings, and children are constantly faced with the challenge of extracting information from texts, comprehensive publications on children's text comprehension are scarce. The author argues that a comprehensive review of children's comprehension processes should analyze the development of fundamental cognitive processes involved in comprehension. Therefore, this book covers the impact of working and long-term memory, metamemory, inference making, and gist building on comprehension performance. The role of first and multilingual language proficiency and tasks on specific component processes of text comprehension is discussed. Research results concerning the function of multilingual proficiency and tasks in text comprehension are complemented by the author's own published and unpublished research. Theoretical considerations lead to models attempting to cover aspects of multilingual text comprehension. The aim of the book is to present a state-of-the-art overview of the field to inform researchers and students of various disciplines and practitioners to improve their understanding of how to foster multilingual text comprehension.

Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031433405
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023