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| Context Clues | 1 |
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| Elementary Education | 1 |
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| Schvaneveldt, Roger | 1 |
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Peer reviewedSchvaneveldt, Roger; And Others – Child Development, 1977
This study employs a lexical-decision task to investigate second- and fourth-grade children's use of semantic context in word recognition. Results showed that younger and poorer readers benefit at least as much from semantic context in word recognition as do older and better readers. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Context Clues, Decision Making, Elementary Education
