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Fjällström, Eva; Kokkola, Lydia – Children's Literature in Education, 2015
Resisting the will to empathise with a focalised character is assumed to be difficult for young readers, yet empirical evidence on how they actually respond is limited. This paper combines recent insights gleaned from cognitive literary studies with a small-scale empirical study of thirty-five Swedish adolescents reading an Irish short story in…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Fiction
Simpson, Timothy J. – 1995
This paper examines the dual coding hypothesis, a model of the coding of visual and textual information, from the perspective of a mass media professional, such as a teacher, interested in accurately presenting both visual and textual material to a mass audience (i.e., students). It offers an extension to the theory, based upon the various skill…
Descriptors: Coding, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Information Processing
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Anderson, O. Roger; Botticelli, Steven – Science Education, 1990
Investigated is a reader's ability to comprehend written text that is highly novel with few semantic cues. The theoretical perspective, assessment theory, materials and methods, and the results of this study are discussed. (KR)
Descriptors: Coding, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures