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Peer reviewedByrne, Karen; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1990
Linguistic performance of 7 children (mean age=68 months) with spina bifida, hydrocephalus, and average intelligence was evaluated. Subjects dealt with the semantic-pragmatic requirements of linguistically posed problems in an age-appropriate manner. Performance declined as task demands increased but no more than performance of nondisabled…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Language Skills, Neurological Impairments, Performance Factors
Peer reviewedAbkarian, G. G.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1992
Analysis of young children's comprehension of common idioms revealed a significant linear trend for children to make more literal responses with increasing age. Children did not find the story contexts helpful in interpreting the idioms. A range of comprehension scores was found among the individual idioms, but semantic transparency was not…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Context Effect, Difficulty Level
Peer reviewedNippold, Marilyn A.; Haq, Faridah Serajul – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1996
Evaluation of the role of concreteness and familiarity in the development of proverb comprehension in 180 students in grades 5, 8, and 11 found that both concreteness and familiarity as well as student age, influenced comprehension. Results support the "metasemantic" and the "language experience" hypotheses of language comprehension development.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Developmental Stages, Difficulty Level
Download full textDe Corte, Erik; And Others – 1984
This study investigates the influence of changes in the wording of simple addition and subtraction problems without affecting their semantic structure on the level of difficulty of those problems for first and second graders and on the nature of their errors. The objective is to contribute to a better understanding of the process of constructing a…
Descriptors: Addition, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Grade 1
Peer reviewedGriffith, Penny L.; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1990
Two linguistic microstructures (propositions and cohesive devices) were analyzed in story recalls by 11 primary and intermediate level hearing-impaired students. When stories were very simple, students generated mostly complete propositions, however as complexity increased, semantic errors resulted in fewer complete propositions. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Coherence, Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedStoefen-Fisher, Jill M. – Journal of Special Education, 1988
Thirty-two hearing-impaired adolescents were assessed on comprehension of three anaphoric forms within conjoined sentences: repeated noun, personal pronouns, and null form. The null form anaphora in a semantically acceptable environment, in which some hearing-impaired students apply a deviant object-subject deletion rule, was significantly more…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Difficulty Level, Error Analysis (Language), Hearing Impairments
