Inferencing and syntactic complexity as two determinants of comprehension difficulty

[摘要] This investigat:i.ondemonstrates that school-leaversexperience the greatest amount pf difficulty in answeringcomprehension questions that demand inferencing related tostylistic effects in written passages. It also demonstratesthat the texts use,d in Transvaal Education Departmentwritten comprehension examinations and the questions

[发布机构] University of the Witwatersrand