ST&D 2026: 2026 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR TEXT AND DISCOURSE
PROGRAM

Days: Wednesday, July 29th Thursday, July 30th Friday, July 31st

Wednesday, July 29th

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11:00-12:00 Session 1: (online and asynchronous) Remote Poster Session
The effect of direct, explicit instruction of text-sourced vocabulary words for secondary students with reading difficulties, including MLLs, when delivered by paraprofessionals (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sarah Kocherhans
Situational Uncertainty as a Predictor of Source Use and Memory During Evaluative Reading (abstract)
PRESENTER: Gaston Saux
Note-taking and the Establishment of Causal Connections in Note-Review, and Comprehension of Spoken and Written Spontaneous Discourse by Argentine College Students (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jazmin Cevasco
Title: Text-to-Speech as a Digital Reading Affordance: Reducing Mind-Wandering and Improving Processing Efficiency and Comprehension in School-Age Students (abstract)
Constructing a Predictive Scientific Reading Framework (abstract)
PRESENTER: Emily Hall
The Language of Likes: A Corpus Study on Linguistic Predictors of Message Acceptance (abstract)
The Functions of Floating and Empty Signifiers in Multimodal Discourse Analysis: Insights from a Student Digital Video Composition (abstract)
To pair or not to pair? Testing for differences in learning from small group discussions due to group size (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jennifer Wiley
Beyond Spoken Interaction: Discourse Markers, Stance, and Dialogicality in Fiction (abstract)
The Effect of Polarized Partisanship on Adolescents’ Scientific Reasoning (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jenna Alton
12:00-13:30Mentoring Lunch (for ST&D mentorship program participants)
15:15-16:55 Session 4A: Symposium 1
Location: Room A
15:15
Lexical Ambiguity and Sentence Comprehension in Adult Literacy Learners: The Role of Vocabulary Knowledge (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ellie Hong
15:35
Understanding the strengths and challenges of adults comprehending texts (abstract)
15:55
Indirect Effects of Intellectual Humility on Relationships between Metacognitive Awareness and Judgments and Reading Comprehension Performance (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jason Braasch
16:15
Generative AI for Generative Learning: Investigating AI-Supported Learning-By-Explaining in Introductory Biology (abstract)
PRESENTER: Kathryn McCarthy
16:35
Writing in the Digital Age: The Unexplored but Critical Skill Needed by Adults (abstract)
PRESENTER: Daphne Greenberg
15:15-16:55 Session 4B: Difficulty & Complexity
Location: Room B
15:15
LLMs Are Not the Same: AI Tools Differ When Adapting Texts for Struggling Readers (abstract)
15:35
GPT Readability and Non-Standard English Dialects (abstract)
15:55
Revising a psychology textbook to improve discipline-specific learning (abstract)
PRESENTER: Kaya Easley
16:15
The Lingering Effects of Difficulty: Perceived Difficulty and Task-Unrelated Thought During Learning (abstract)
16:35
Using Eye Gaze Data to Track Changes in Reading Behaviors with Parallel Texts (abstract)
PRESENTER: Amanda Jensen
15:15-16:55 Session 4C: Time, Space, & Events
Location: Room C
15:15
Critically Examining the Perceptual Decoupling – Mind Wandering Link: Implications for Comprehension (abstract)
PRESENTER: Vishal Kuvar
15:35
Toward A Dynamic Framework for Formalizing Situation-Model Updating in Text Comprehension (abstract)
PRESENTER: Lisa Zacharski
15:55
Mind the Gap: A Meta-Analysis of Spatial-Computational Representation in Educational interventions (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mark Brady
16:15
Prediction Over Postdiction: Directional Asymmetry in Event Schema Activation (abstract)
PRESENTER: Shu Hu
16:35
How Writers Make Events Mean: Predicates at the Interface of Cognition and Narrative Discourse (abstract)
PRESENTER: Liat Hershkovitz
17:30-19:00 Session 5: Poster Session I and Reception
Understanding Persuasive Routes in AI-powered Misinformation Revision (abstract)
PRESENTER: Wei Zhang
From Offloading to Engagement: Toward Effective Use of an AI Chatbot in an Explanation Writing Task (abstract)
PRESENTER: Kyra McNaughton
Public Information, Misinformation, and Disinformation Discourse in Generative Artificial Intelligence Narratives (abstract)
The Ed-AI literacy model in higher education: insights from scenario analysis (abstract)
Defensive Writing in the Age of AI: Writing to Prove Your Humanity (abstract)
PRESENTER: Stephen Hutt
Understanding the Overlapping Impacts of Socioeconomic Challenges and Family Structure on Literacy (abstract)
PRESENTER: Nicole Houston
Unpacking Self-Regulated Learning from Multiple Digital Resources: What are Key Processes? (abstract)
Supporting Discourse Among Learners with Disability Labels in a Middle School Science Classroom (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sarah Barrett
The shortcomings of demographic discourse: comparing students’ self-described identity variables to institutional labels (abstract)
PRESENTER: Maria Goldshtein
The Contributions of Intellectual Humility to Metamemory for Sources of Multiple Conflicting Claims on the Internet (abstract)
PRESENTER: Taylor Clark
Topic Importance and Accuracy-Directed Reasoning Across Scientific Contexts (abstract)
PRESENTER: Doug Lombardi
Beliefs and Overconfidence for Learning Science Misconceptions in College Students (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mike Mensink
Understanding the Relationship Between Growth Mindset and Feedback-seeking: The Role of Academic Self-Efficacy (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ryan Hall
Task roles and task goals jointly shape gaze and linguistic alignment during collaboration (abstract)
Who’s got the floor? Successful interruptions in dyadic conversations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Roger Kreuz
How does the order of performance levels in rubrics influence student engagement and achievement in digital tasks? (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ignacio Máñez
Thursday, July 30th

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09:00-10:20 Session 6A: Anaphor & Reference
Location: Room A
09:00
An experimental study of pronouns in self-talk: When “you” is “I” (abstract)
09:20
Understanding singular they becomes easier with exposure (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jennifer Arnold
09:40
Human-Like Anaphor Resolution in Large Language Models (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sashank Varma
10:00
Psycholinguistic Predictors of Engagement in Brand Discourse on TikTok (abstract)
PRESENTER: John Hollander
09:00-10:20 Session 6B: Trust
Location: Room B
09:00
Trust and media perception: Exploring sociodemographic and attitudinal determinants of perceived exposure to fake news (abstract)
PRESENTER: Eva Bei
09:20
Effects of Document Source Trustworthiness and Prior Beliefs About Embedded Sources on the Evaluation and Sharing of Political Information (abstract)
PRESENTER: Franco Londra
09:40
Explanation Evaluation based on Source Expertise and Explanation Simplicity (abstract)
10:00
Conceptualizing Trust in Science across Discourse, Epistemic, and Science Communication Perspectives (abstract)
PRESENTER: Victoria Johnson
09:00-10:20 Session 6C: Bilingualism
Location: Room C
09:00
Mental Simulation in L1 and L2: The Role of Shape Typicality in Japanese–English Bilinguals (abstract)
PRESENTER: Kenji Tagashira
09:20
Language-Dependent Modality Effects on Discourse Updating in Heritage Spanish English Bilinguals (abstract)
PRESENTER: Diana Uribe
09:40
Bilingual Inconsistency Effect (abstract)
10:00
Do Bilingual Switching Patterns Shape Memory for Topics and Speakers? (abstract)
PRESENTER: Aj Cruz
10:20-11:00Coffee Break
12:00-13:15Lunch Break
13:30-14:50 Session 8A: Reading Comprehension: Processes and Assessment
Location: Room A
13:30
Tracing the Pathway to Proficient Reading: Effects of a Year-Long Targeted Intervention on Reading Subskills (abstract)
13:50
How Does Semantic-Phonological Bridging Contribute to Adults’ Expository Reading Comprehension? An Empirical Test of The Active View of Reading (abstract)
14:10
Parsing for Meaning: Gender Differences in Response to Sentence-Level Instruction (abstract)
PRESENTER: Eleanor Fang Yan
14:30
Methods for Automated Generation of Cloze Tests for Discourse Comprehension Assessment (abstract)
PRESENTER: Langdon Holmes
13:30-14:50 Session 8B: Disciplinary Comprehension
Location: Room B
13:30
Disciplinary Literacy Disconnects: The Case of Nurse Education and Practice (abstract)
PRESENTER: Malinie Roopchan
13:50
Comics in education: A Meta-Analysis of Comics vs Text Interventions in STEM vs Non-STEM learning (abstract)
14:10
The Impact of Text Genre on Visual and Verbal Thought During Reading (abstract)
PRESENTER: Püren Öncel
14:30
Reading for Models: Reconceptualizing the Product of Deep Reading Comprehension (abstract)
13:30-14:50 Session 8C: Communication & Perspective Taking
Location: Room C
13:30
Audience design influences referential choice: A study of perspective-taking during self-communication (abstract)
13:50
Producing verbal irony reduces the intensity of felt negative emotion (abstract)
14:10
Compensatory Alignment in Natural Conversation (abstract)
PRESENTER: David Heath
14:30
Understanding Verbal Irony: A contrastive Analysis of Personal and Informational Common Ground (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ruhan Çoban
16:00-16:30Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 Session 10: Poster Session II
Advancing a Taxonomy to Explain How Reading Comprehension Strategy Instruction Works (abstract)
PRESENTER: Dennis Davis
The use of a think aloud procedure to examine reading strategy use in adolescent readers (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mindy Bridges
Interactive digital reading features and comprehension outcomes in secondary and postsecondary learners: A scoping review. (abstract)
Reader-test interactions in reading comprehension: Linking reader characteristics, text complexity, and question types aligned with the Common Core (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hongcui Du
Characterizing How Adults with Varying Literacy Skills Interpret Narrative Symbolism (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sarah Miller
How can summary writing support readers' understanding of information from multiple texts? (abstract)
Reconsidering D-ISC Assumptions for Younger Adolescents Through Comprehension Monitoring Research (abstract)
PRESENTER: Burcu Demir
Dimensionality of Inference Processes in Young Children: Insights from Latent Space Item Response Modeling (abstract)
PRESENTER: Seohyeon Choi
Eye-Movement Indices of Structure Building: How Ambient-to-Focal Dynamics Track Mapping and Shifting Processes (abstract)
PRESENTER: Virginia Troemel
Measuring reading comprehension from retell with network science: A proof-of-concept evaluation (abstract)
PRESENTER: Armaan Parikh
Executive Function and Fluency: The Role of Graphophonological-Semantic Cognitive Flexibility in Oral Reading Fluency Rate and Expressiveness (abstract)
PRESENTER: Amira Khalile
A Meta-Analysis on the Relation Between Executive Functioning and Second-Language (L2) Reading (abstract)
PRESENTER: Joanna Li
Socioeconomic context, executive function, and expository discourse comprehension in adolescence (abstract)
PRESENTER: Tin Nguyen
When Adaptation Doesn't Transfer: Visual World Paradigm Limits in Pronoun Processing (abstract)
PRESENTER: Simantika Roy
Statistical learning defines which discourse biases guide pronoun interpretation (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jennifer Arnold
Revisiting Common Ground in Verbal Irony: Evidence from Response Times (abstract)
Observing Meaning Activation and Selection in Puns: A Cross-modal Lexical Decision Paradigm (abstract)
PRESENTER: Alissa Desmond
Friday, July 31st

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09:00-10:40 Session 11A: Learning from text
Location: Room A
09:00
Reading at home or at school ? Contextual effects on multiple documents comprehension strategies (abstract)
09:20
A multidimensional approach to investigate the association between prior knowledge and learning from texts (abstract)
PRESENTER: Christian Tarchi
09:40
Topic Familiarity and Strategic Processing in Learning from Multiple Texts (abstract)
PRESENTER: Seongyeup Kim
10:00
Effects of Seductive Scientific Refutation Texts on Low and High Knowledge Readers (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mike Mensink
10:20
Focusing on the Big Picture: How Scaffolding Impacts Attention During Expository Text Comprehension (abstract)
PRESENTER: Püren Öncel
09:00-10:40 Session 11B: Learning with AI
Location: Room B
09:00
Correcting Artificial Intelligence Misconceptions Through Chatbot–Based Refutations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Luan Chau
09:20
The Effect of AI Generated Explanations on Students Judgments of Learning (abstract)
PRESENTER: Allison Jaeger
09:40
Using AI To Summarize Texts: Effects on Metacognitive Awareness and Test Performance (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sam Agnoli
10:00
Beliefs and Epistemic Calibration in AI-Augmented Inquiry (abstract)
10:20
GenAI powered Socratic chatbots for learning STEM topics – a pilot study (abstract)
PRESENTER: Maria Goldshtein
09:00-10:40 Session 11C: Sourcing
Location: Room C
09:00
Clarifying the construct of sourcing: A scoping review and secondary analysis of process data (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ali Fulsher
09:20
Sourcing and Corroboration Across Adolescence and AI: A Comparative Study of Human Evaluators and ChatGPT Models (abstract)
PRESENTER: Philipp Marten
09:40
Sourcing, Standards, and Skill Levels (abstract)
10:00
A MASRL-Aligned Codebook for Identifying Metacognitive Processes in Think-Alouds During Multiple-Document Reading (abstract)
PRESENTER: Miranda Moe
10:40-11:20Coffee Break
11:20-12:40 Session 12A: Feedback & Metacognition
Location: Room A
11:20
Does the presence and position of Knowledge-of-Correct-Response feedback affect students’ engagement with and memory for digital Elaborative Feedback? (abstract)
11:40
Metacognitive Judgment Accuracy Under Different Exposures to Worked Examples (abstract)
12:00
Watching Experts Succeed Makes Novices Overconfident, but Watching Failures Increases Caution (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sara E. Neuner
12:20
Does Sycophancy Build Trust? The Role of Confirmatory Feedback in the Perceived Credibility of Uncertain Feedback Sources (abstract)
11:20-12:40 Session 12B: Reasoning & Argumentation
Location: Room B
11:20
Reading to Reason: Comprehension, Epistemic Cognition, and Critical Thinking in Adolescents’ Multidimensional Sourcing (abstract)
PRESENTER: Haolan Wang
11:40
A Review of Materials Used in Multiple Source Use Tasks Through the Lens of Epistemic Cognition (abstract)
PRESENTER: Varun Athilat
12:00
Evaluative Orientations in Students’ Evidentiary Reasoning: A Natural Language Processing Approach (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hongcui Du
12:20
Impacts on Argumentative Writing in a Discussion-and-Debate-Based Deep Reading Program (abstract)
PRESENTER: Lisa B. Hsin
11:20-12:40 Session 12C: Bilingualism & Culture
Location: Room C
11:20
The critical impact of language of schooling on discourse updating for bilinguals (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ana Schwartz
11:40
Causal and Concessive Connectives in ESL Reading Comprehension: Evidence Across Educational Levels and Individual Differences (abstract)
12:00
Direct and indirect effects of inferencing on reading comprehension in adult literacy learners: A path analysis of group differences in native and non-native English speakers (abstract)
PRESENTER: Eleanor Fang Yan
12:20
Cultural knowledge as a resource for reading: Elementary students’ comprehension processes and connections with culturally tailored text (abstract)
12:40-13:50Lunch Break
13:50-15:30 Session 13A: Symposium 2
Location: Room A
13:50
Leveraging Technology for Inference-making Instruction in Emerging Readers (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ali Fulsher
14:10
Understanding Individual and Media Differences in Kindergarteners’ Video-Based Inference-Making (abstract)
PRESENTER: Seohyeon Choi
14:30
Differences in fiction vs non-fiction video-based inference generation among elementary students (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jechun An
14:50
Modeling Inference-Making Efficiency in Kindergarten Students Using Drift–Diffusion Modeling (abstract)
PRESENTER: Katie Grabeel
15:10
The Effect of Lateral Reading on Elementary Students' Evaluation of Credibility on Digital Information (abstract)
PRESENTER: Yoojeong Son
13:50-15:30 Session 13B: Social Media
Location: Room B
13:50
Mothers in an online songwriting group who see what happened more similarly feel more connected (abstract)
14:10
Different kinds of misinterpretations of social media posts’ intended stance and what predicts them (abstract)
PRESENTER: Rebecca Dolgin
14:30
Positivity-Induced Mind Wandering in Reading: Insights from Reward Devaluation Theory (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mya Urena
14:50
The Language of Successful Persuasion on r/ChangeMyView (abstract)
PRESENTER: Varun Athilat
13:50-15:30 Session 13C: Text Analysis
Location: Room C
13:50
Text Segmentation by Paragraphs and Chapters: a Temporal Sequence Revealing a Textual Rhythm (abstract)
14:10
A World Court for Whom? Machine Learning Evidence of Bias in Legal Discourse (abstract)
14:30
Cohesion Alignment between LLM and Human Evaluations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Scott Crossley
14:50
The Statistical Structure of the Lexicon Guides Novel Word Reading (abstract)
PRESENTER: Robert Wiley
15:10
Explanatory Many-Facet Rasch Measurement as a Psychometric Approach to LLM Interpretability in Student Discourse (abstract)
PRESENTER: Wesley Morris
15:30-15:50Coffee Break