Learning technical information from text in a technological world is a central cognitive skill that is taught in schools, tested by educational institutions and industry employers, and remains a ...

Successful communication relies on the capacity of community members to establish a shared understanding of the world. Language plays a central role in fostering this alignment by providing a medium ...

Many children who do not have trouble learning how to read do have trouble understanding what they read. Yet surprisingly, comprehension instruction did not receive much attention from reading ...