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Moskovit, Leonard – College Composition and Communication, 1983
Identifies the characteristics of clear references to explain why certain kinds of broad pronoun reference are clear while others are not. (HTH)
Descriptors: Coherence, Linguistics, Pronouns, Reading Processes
Chapman, L. John – 1981
Reading teachers of the 1980s need to be confident not only about the key issues but also about their own knowledge of the issues when making decisions. Two issues from the seventies (reading as a developmental process and reading as a psycholinguistic process) combine with the broad notion of textlinguistics as important areas of knowledge for…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Developmental Stages, Educational Trends, Psycholinguistics
Snow, David – 1982
The psychological process of segmenting sentences into meaningful units or "chunks" is believed to be an important aspect of text comprehension processes. The most characteristic type of parsing task elicits perceptions of text structure indirectly by asking individuals to make judgments about pause placement in sentences. In four…
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Perception, Children, Elementary Education
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 1978
The intent of this publication is to provide an opportunity for educators to consider reading comprehension as dependent, at least in part, on specific features of written language. Chapter 1 discusses a theoretical framework for thinking, problem solving, and reading comprehension. Chapter 2 deals with teaching word-level comprehension,…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Conceptual Schemes, Content Area Reading, Context Clues