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Peer reviewedHorning, Alice S. – Reading Horizons, 1982
Argues that both redundancy and propositional analysis (a strategy for analyzing meaning in a text) help to reveal the nature of the reader-text interaction and are two of the important missing elements in readability. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Readability, Reading Instruction
Le Feal, K. Dejean – 1982
Impromptu speech is characterized by the simultaneous processes of ideation (the elaboration and structuring of reasoning by the speaker as he improvises) and expression in the speaker. Other elements accompany this characteristic: division of speech flow into short segments, acoustic relief in the form of word stress following a pause, and both…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Difficulty Level, Discourse Analysis
Download full textZola, David – 1981
A study investigated the process of information extraction in reading in order to determine whether language constraints in texts reduced the amount of visual detail noticed by the reader during the reading of specific words. A detailed examination was made of 20 college students' eye movement patterns as they read a group of selected passages.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Context Clues, Discourse Analysis
