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Florit, Elena; Roch, Maja; Levorato, M. Chiara – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
According to multicomponent models (Oakhill & Cain, 2007a), text comprehension is a complex process that requires the processing of explicit (i.e., information presented in the text) and implicit information (i.e., information inferable from the text or from previous knowledge), and involves various components. This study investigated (a)…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Cognitive Processes, Reader Text Relationship, Comprehension
Kraemer, Linda A. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effects of listening to expository text on first graders' listening comprehension and book choice. The participants for this study included 77 first grade students from four heterogeneous classes at a suburban elementary school in the New York City metropolitan area. During the pretest and…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Intervention