Abstract
We investigated how working memory capacity (WMC) and text difficulty affect the accuracy of metacomprehension monitoring. Participants completed the operation span test to measure WMC and expository text. In the easy-text condition, participants read four texts showing increasing local cohesion, whereas in the difficult-text condition, participants read four original texts. Participants assigned a comprehension rating to each text and then completed a comprehension test. The results found a significant interactive effect of WMC and text difficulty on metacomprehension accuracy. In difficult-text condition, the accuracy of higher-WMC readers was higher than that of lower-WMC readers. In contrast, in easy-text condition, the accuracy of higher-WMC readers did not differ from that of lower-WMC readers. These results suggest that, given no main effect of text difficulty, the reducing of processing texts does not necessarily leads the improvement of accuracy.
