The widespread adoption of ChatGPT, an AI language model, has the potential to bring
about significant changes to the research, teaching, and learning of foreign languages. The …

With the advent of the internet and numerous social media platforms, citizens now have
enormous opportunities to express and share their opinions on various societal and political …

Prior knowledge is one of the strongest contributors to comprehension, but there is little
specificity about different aspects of prior knowledge and how they impact comprehension …

Cutting-edge data science techniques can shed new light on fundamental questions in
educational research. We apply techniques from natural language processing (lexicons …

Syntactic complexity has been an area of significant interest in L2 writing development
studies over the past 45 years. Despite the regularity in which syntactic complexity measures …

This chapter offers an integrated review and discussion of the major advances in theory and
practice in the area of literacy, with particular focus on the work since 2014 onward. For the …

An important topic in writing research has been the use of cohesive features. Much of this
research has focused on local and text cohesion. The few studies that have studied global …

This paper introduces the CommonLit Ease of Readability (CLEAR) corpus, which provides
unique readability scores for~ 5000 text excerpts along with information about the excerpt's …

Research has identified a number of linguistic features that influence the reading
comprehension of young readers; yet, less is known about whether and how these findings …

This article introduces the second version of the Tool for the Automatic Analysis of Cohesion
(TAACO 2.0). Like its predecessor, TAACO 2.0 is a freely available text analysis tool that …