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What is SLA? - LSA 5
Landauer & Dumais (2004) also account for why those who are already expert in a field or know a content better are able to read better and faster:


 * More expert readers "get more" out of what they read. There is "inductive power inherent in the possession of large bodies of old knowledge." (p. 31) By the end of high school, a knowledge of 100,000 words is probably a low estimate.

The expert reading her 2 millionth paragraph has a .56 probablility of correct extrapolation when encountering a new term in, say, an academic journal, while the novice encountering only his second sample of a similar context has a .14 probability of correct meaning: He is about 1/4 as able to read for meaning.


 * There is "inductive power inherent in the possession of large bodies of old knowledge."** (p. 31)

Landauer, T. K., & Dumais, S. T. (2004). A solution to Plato's problem: The Latent Semantic Analysis theory of acquisition, induction and representation of knowledge. Available at http://lsa.colorado.edu/papers/plato/plato.annote.html.