An interesting next step would be to explore how sensorimotor cortex engagement during explicit word comprehension tasks changes across age.
Knowledge, in its scientific and technological manifestations, refers not only to the codifiable, covert and explicit elements of comprehension that can be transferred extrinsically by learning, hard copy and skills but also to the tacit and implicit components of understanding held intrinsically in individuals, epistemic communities of practice and collective experience (Tidd and Izumimoto 2002).
Instruction for 'focus on forms' group was based on explicit techniques of reading comprehension, role-play, and defining of formulaic sequences.
Results from the single-case multiple probe across participants design suggest a functional relation between the implementation of structured inquiry using explicit instruction and student comprehension of social studies content.
Findings revealed that students in the experimental group performed better than those in the control group during the post-test on both text explicit, text implicit reading comprehension questions, and also on the Reader Self- Perception Scale (RSPS/2).
statistically significant differences (P<.05) were found between the experimental and control group regarding their scores in text explicit, text implicit reading comprehension, and overall reader self- perception mean scores.
Tasks vary from finding explicit information, to making global comprehension inferences about content and authors, to forming personal opinions.
The model produces a scan path of attention fixations and a symbolic description of the interpretation which can be compared to human eye movement and verbal protocol data respectively, provides an account of the strategic processes that control comprehension, and makes explicit what underlies the differences between expert and novice performance.
Parallel manipulations of explicit judgment versus reading for comprehension could explore effects of the task and decision making on the observed activity estimates across both genders.
We must teach explicit, sequentially structured skills, including phonics and comprehension.
