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Download full textCalvert, Sandra L.; And Others – 1993
A study was conducted to determine whether children think about the verbal messages embedded in songs, or merely sing the words without thinking about them. A total of 48 preschool girls and boys viewed a televised vignette of the song "Frere Jacques" under varying conditions of language comprehensibility, rehearsal, and repetition. The visual…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Learning Activities, Memorization
Thompson, Dennis N.; And Others – 1986
A study was conducted to investigate ways in which reading comprehension could be instructionally influenced and whether that influence differentially affected young and elderly adult learners. The study attempted, too, to determine whether advance organizers--instructional aids designed to precede a main passage and to provide an organizational…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Advance Organizers, Age Differences, Aging (Individuals)
