Text presentation and information processing in Russian
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2021/12/0045/000518Keywords:
text processing, multimodal text, text format, comprehensionAbstract
This study is based on the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning (Mayer, 2009). We investigated how readers process and comprehend information when reading and listening to texts of different formats: infographics, audiotext, infographics combined with audiotext, and written format. Biographies of four Russian writers were used as the material. All the stimuli were of the same size and the same level of readability. In a four-group design experiment, 32 foreign students and 32 native speakers of Russian examined four texts in four different formats, answered factual and analytical after-the-text questions, gave keywords, and estimated the difficulty of each text. The overall results made it possible to build a hierarchy of best-perceived formats for both groups of participants.
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