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La Sorte, Diane M. – 1980
A study was conducted to investigate the ability of children to determine meanings of derived words that have undergone a pronunciation shift while retaining a close orthographic relationship to their base words. A researcher-designed test was constructed using derived words that had their base word included in a "core list" of words at or below…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Language Patterns, Learning Modalities
Download full textFurnam, John P. – 1975
The objectives of this study were to determine the effect post-adjunct questions exert on: learning from oral and written instruction, learning by high and low ability readers, and learning material which requires different levels of intellectual processing. No significant main effects occurred between question and no-question groups. Post-adjunct…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Individual Differences, Learning Modalities, Learning Processes
Mickel, Vesta L. – 1990
A study was designed to test the following experimental alternative hypotheses: (1) that the correlation between listening and reading scores would be negative, or (2) that the correlation would be positive. The study also focused on determining which of the two principal teaching modalities, aural and visual, was the more effective in promoting…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Content Area Reading, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
Lehrer, Ariella; Pezdek, Kathy – 1983
A study examined the nature of the schematic processes for a story presented in television, text, and radio form and for a story presented to above average and average readers. The story was parsed according to J. M. Mandler and N. S. Johnson's story grammar. Schematic processing was inferred from the pattern of node memorability for the different…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Grade 6
Pitts, Murray C.; Thompson, Bruce – 1982
A study of 103 second, third, and fourth grade students investigated relationships among cognitive styles and reading comprehension. Each subject was individually tested using four different instruments to assess four cognitive styles: (1) field-independence/dependence (ability to locate a simple figure--concept--hidden in a complex field), (2)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Conceptual Tempo, Elementary Education, Learning Modalities
Gasser, Judith G. – 1984
Since the time of E. B. Huey (1908), there have been clear indicators that oral language as a reflection of a child's linguistic ability has been clearly related to his or her reading achievement or comprehension. P. McKee (1937) and W. S. Gray (1937) both speculated that reading difficulties might parallel language deficiencies. G. Hildreth…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Acquisition, Language Arts, Language Proficiency
