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Rolf A. Zwaan – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
In this article, I outline the evolution of my research in the domain of narrative comprehension. I cover three phases: (1) the event-indexing model, which explores connecting events in narratives; (2) the immersed experiencer framework, which focuses on event representations and mental simulations; and (3) a preliminary exploration of conspiracy…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Experiential Learning, Political Attitudes
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Al-Hilawani, Yasser A. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
Proposed guidelines have been published recently (Al-Hilawani, 2016) to help identify and determine for the first time the existence of learning disabilities among students in the Middle East Arab (M.E.A.) countries. These guidelines have been drawn from recent and up-to-date information available on learning disabilities. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Foreign Countries
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Massey, Carolyn; Wiggin, Paul – Teaching History, 2018
Discussions with sixth-form students about reading led Carolyn Massey and Paul Wiggin to start a sixth-form reading group. They describe here the series of themed sessions that they planned, and the student discussion and reflections that resulted. Listening to their students discuss their reading led Massey and Wiggin to reflect on what is meant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Reading Instruction, Youth Clubs
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De Martin-Silva, L.; Fonseca, J.; Jones, R. L.; Morgan, K.; Mesquita, I. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
Despite recent attention, research is yet to adequately focus on sports coaches' intellectual development as a consequence of their formal learning experiences. Drawing on the work of Perry, the aim of this article was to explore how the intellectual development of undergraduate sports coaching students was affected by the social pedagogical…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Athletic Coaches, College Athletics, Intellectual Development
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Silva, Silvia Morales; Verhoeven, Ludo; van Leeuwe, Jan – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
In this study, the socio-cultural variation in reading comprehension development was examined in 331 fifth graders from schools in Lima, Peru. Reading comprehension was measured using an adaptation of the PIRLS Reading Literacy test. The fifth graders' reading comprehension results, measured over the course of fifth grade, were related to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
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Hutchison, Laveria F. – Reading World, 1979
Provides a rationale for using television as a means of instruction and presents a model for capitalizing on television as a connection to reading. Includes a sample task sheet. (TJ)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Elementary Education, Intellectual Development, Listening Comprehension
Haring, Marilyn J.; Fry, Maurine A. – Educational Communication and Technology: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Development, 1979
Experimenters analyzed a prose passage into 350 idea units, then interspersed throughout the text pictures depicting main ideas, or both main ideas and nonessential details. For fourth- and sixth-grade subjects, pictures did facilitate both immediate and delayed recall, but only of main ideas. (Author/JEG)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Elementary Education
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Crowell, Doris C.; Au, Kathryn H. – Language Arts, 1979
Describes research that tested the validity of a set of guidelines for a program for the systematic development of listening comprehension skills. (DD)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Early Childhood Education, Educational Research, Intellectual Development
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Anderson, Richard C.; And Others – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1978
In this study 60 first and fourth graders selected pictures that best represented the meanings of sentences read to them. Results indicated that children were instantiating the target words with specific concepts rather than bringing to mind abstract, undifferentiated meanings. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Context Clues, Elementary Education
Kohl, Herb – Teacher, 1978
Skills development in reading should be balanced with reading, listening, and talking activities which focus on content and themes, so that reading comprehension is also developed. (SJL)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Elementary Education, Intellectual Development, Learning Activities
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Steig, Janet B. – Reading World, 1979
Provides a literature review of research done in recent years to identify comprehension processes within the reader. (TJ)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education
Jund, Suzanne, Ed. – Wisconsin English Journal, 1978
The articles in this journal for reading teachers stress the importance of comprehension in the reading process. The topics discussed include the following: inferences and comprehension, the learning process involved in comprehension, the gifted student and reading comprehension, the cloze procedure, language clues to reading comprehension,…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
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Chapman, Robin S.; Kohn, Lawrence L. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1978
The study investigated preferences shown by 25 preschool children regarding the handier toy, the smaller toy, the more probable toy, the animate noun, and the first-mentioned noun as agent in interpreting semantically reversible sentences prior to adult performance. (Author/SBH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Preschool Education
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Bisanz, Jeffrey; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1978
A recognition memory experiment with 8-, 11- and 20-year-olds investigated the hypothesis that, with age, semantic encoding becomes increasingly important relative to acoustic encoding. (CM)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Comprehension
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Gutkin, Terry B. – Psychology in the Schools, 1979
Utilizing data from the WISC-R standardization sample, Gutkin presented formulae to calculate factorially pure verbal comprehension, perceptual organization, and freedom from distractibility deviation quotients. Data are presented concerning standard errors of measurement and score discrepancies that are required for statistical significance…
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Attention Span, Children, Comprehension
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