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Direct linkMayer, Richard E.; Fennell, Sherry; Farmer, Lindsay; Campbell, Julie – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2004
Students received a personalized or nonpersonalized version of a narrated animation explaining how the human respiratory system works. The narration for the nonpersonalized version was in formal style, whereas the narration for the personalized version was in conversational style in which "the" was changed to "your" in 12 places. In 3 experiments,…
Descriptors: Narration, Epistemology, Multimedia Instruction, Language Styles
