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Gunn, T. M. – Reading Psychology, 2008
This study investigated whether structured or unstructured questioning strategies, combined with two levels of domain knowledge and text coherence, significantly affect text memory and text learning. Results of this study suggest that high domain knowledge and structured questioning strategies are the most reliable predictors of text memory and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Questioning Techniques, Interaction, Memory
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Amtmann, Dagmar; Abbott, Robert D.; Berninger, V. W. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2007
Children (n = 122) and adults (n = 200) with dyslexia completed rapid automatic naming (RAN) letters, rapid automatic switching (RAS) letters and numbers, executive function (inhibition, verbal fluency), and phonological working memory tasks. Typically developing 3rd (n = 117) and 5th (n = 103) graders completed the RAS task. Instead of analyzing…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Memory, Grade 5, Phonology
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Walczyk, Jeffrey J.; Wei, Min; Grifith-Ross, Diana A.; Goubert, Sarah E.; Cooper, Alison L.; Zha, Peijia – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
An account was tested of the development of the interplay between automatic processes and cognitive resources in reading. According to compensatory-encoding theory, with advancing skill, readers increasingly keep automatic processes from faltering and provide timely, accurate data to working memory by pausing, looking back, rereading, and…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Laboratory Schools, Semantics, Memory