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States in the Reading Development of Adults.
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Norman, Charles A.; Malicky, Grace – Journal of Reading, 1987
Determined the strategies adults used as they read. Results revealed two stages of reading development: (1) a reliance equally on print and language based strategies with no integration of the two, and (2) increased ability to use language knowledge to integrate and predict as they read. (SRT)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Literacy, Cognitive Processes, Decoding (Reading)
The Effect of Context Clues on the Vocabulary Test Performance of Word Dominant and Paragraph Dominant Readers.
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Duffelmeyer, Frederick A. – Journal of Reading, 1984
Examines whether paragraph dominant readers at the fifth, eighth, and eleventh grade levels would outscore word dominant readers when tested on their ability to use context clues to determine word meaning. Concludes that this was true only for fifth grade paragraph dominant readers. (FL)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies, Paragraphs
Short-Term Memory Capacity and Letter Identification Rate.
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Yaden, David B., Jr. – Journal of Reading, 1982
Presents contrasting evidence on the rate of letter identification. (AEA)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Identification, Letters (Alphabet), Reading Processes
A Partridge in a Pear Tree.
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Otto, Wayne – Journal of Reading, 1986
Summarizes good reading research published in journals during 1986, focusing on studies that deal with reading comprehension, prior learning, and word recognition. (SRT)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Prior Learning