Focused instruction on implicature may be needed to facilitate the development of pragmatic comprehension ability.
The reduction of items in each test according to the Rasch model criteria enabled the development of reading comprehension tests that are time saving for teachers and researchers, without compromising the assessment of the latent trait.
The results suggest that in deaf children, vocabulary knowledge and nonverbal cognitive processes such as selective attention, visuo-spatial memory, abstract reasoning and sequential processing may be especially relevant for the development of reading comprehension.
Although Piagetian theory provides a framework to explore the development of probability comprehension [ 36] an analysis of the evidence and subsequent research indicates this theory may be too simplistic [ 37].
The name of the program alludes to the catalytic effect its meant to have on the development of kids' language comprehension skills, but, at least at my school, it had a second, more detrimental meaning: We were supposed to read as quickly as possible.
In recent years, increasing importance has been placed on the development of methods to improve comprehension about the likely value of treatments (Pater et al, 1994; Llewellyn-Thomas, 1995; O'Connor, 1995; Richardson and Detsky, 1995).
These results suggest that development of comprehension with age might not be affected in malnourished children.
Complete comprehension about the development of and the role of dentinal defects in endodontics is a great challenge that needs to be addressed.
This accumulation of work has motivated the development of a model of the user comprehension with the aim of more closely linking theoretical and empirical works examining effective notation design, general approaches to displaying notations and interacting with notations.
