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Thorndyke, Perry W. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1976
This study examined how people use inferences to aid comprehension of connected discourse. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Connected Discourse, Language Research, Learning Processes
Keenan, Janice M. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1977
Recognition memory for statements made during a luncheon discussion group was tested in an incidental learning paradigm after thirty hours. Statements high in interactional content yielded excellent memory for surface form and meaning; statements low in interactional content showed no memory for surface form and less memory for content. (CHK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Connected Discourse, Language Research, Memory
Download full textCarroll, John B. – 1971
This review, based on a survey of more than 1200 items in the research literature, begins by attempting to outline a theory of language comprehension and learning from language. A lengthy chapter is devoted to problems in the measurement of comprehension and of learning from connected discourse. Also considered, in successive chapters, are the…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Connected Discourse
