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Good, Average, and Poor Eleventh Grade Readers' Affective Responses to Positively-Connotative and Negatively-Connotative Adverbs in Simulated Newspaper Articles: A Critical Reading Study.
Greenewald, M. Jane; And Others – 1973
A study was carried out to discover if readers responded affectively to the connotative meanings of certain words and if better readers were more or less responsive to these connotations than were average or poor readers. A total of 120 students in five intact eleventh grade classes completed semantic differential scales to measure both individual…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Comparative Analysis, Critical Reading, Emotional Response