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Text Segmenting and Comprehension: Effects of Reading and Information Processing Abilities.

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Kirby, John R.; Gordon, Christopher J. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1988

Discussion of text segmenting and comprehension highlights a study of elementary students in Australia that tested two hypotheses, one concerning reading abilities and one concerning information processing skills involved in syntactic analysis. Tests that measured vocabulary, comprehension, and processing skills are described, results are…

Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries