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Download full textAkindele, Femi – 1991
Although many studies have been undertaken by literary critics and stylisticians on African English literary texts generally and Nigerian English prose fiction specifically, there has been little or no analysis of dialogue and discourse in such texts. An examination of the phenomenon of speech as manifested in conversational pieces in Nigerian…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cultural Influences, Discourse Analysis, Fiction
Peer reviewedAdejumo, Dayo – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1983
The effect of cognitive style on the performance of four groups of college students (n=326) who used different strategies of study to comprehend prose was investigated. The cognitive styles of the subjects (field dependence/independence) interacted with the strategies of study and seem to affect performance on comprehension of prose at posttest.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Higher Education, Interaction, Learning Processes
The Effects of Adjunct Questions in Prose for Deaf and Hearing Students at Different Reading Levels.
Peer reviewedDowaliby, Fred J. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1992
Two studies investigated interactions among position of adjunct questions (inserted before or after sections of instructional prose), reading ability, and direct versus indirect learning outcomes for 74 deaf postsecondary and 100 hearing middle school students. Different effects were observed for deaf and hearing readers and for different levels…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Deafness, Difficulty Level, Interaction
