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Download full textFrederiksen, Carl H. – 1973
This research studied the processes which enable people to acquire semantic information from natural-language discourse. Specific objectives were: (1) to represent semantically the structural meaning of English discourse by a well-defined semantic model; (2) to develop a way of using the semantic representation of a text as a structural model for…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Discourse Analysis, English, Intellectual Development
Peer reviewedHorgan, Dianne – Journal of Child Language, 1978
How a child answers questions provides information about how he or she processes input. A child's early responses to questions at age one year, three months, were compared to her responses at one year, seven months, when she was in the two-word stage. (SW)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Discourse Analysis
Frederiksen, Carl H. – 1976
The primary goal of early reading instruction, according to this paper, should be to teach children to comprehend written discourse in a manner similar to that for oral discourse because both types of discourse require decoding ability--graphic or acoustic. The paper asserts that to simply design reading instruction to achieve the subgoal of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Connected Discourse
Moirand, Sophie – Languages for Special Purposes, 1978
Regardless of the way in which one chooses authentic texts for a course in reading a language for special purposes, at one time or another, one is confronted with the problem of textual analysis. The analysis has to be done in view of the course objectives. A pre-instructional analysis allows the instructor to work out teaching strategies which…
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Comprehension, Critical Reading, Discourse Analysis
Ekmekci, Ozden – 1971
This thesis describes a method for teaching English composition, with the parallel development of comprehension skills, to students in the Middle East Technical University. A survey of techniques for teaching English composition to foreign students is provided along with a discussion of the steps usually followed in writing instruction. The…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Comprehension, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
Kovac, Ceil – 1977
Children in school cooperate in the evaluation of their products and activities by teachers and other students by calling attention to these products and activities with various language strategies. The requests that someone notice something and/or praise it are the data base for this study. The unmarked speech act for this request type is in the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comprehension, Discourse Analysis
Cohen, Andrew D.; Fine, Jonathan – 1978
This paper is the fourth in a series of studies focusing on the problems that Israeli students encounter in reading technical texts in English. This study deals with non-native students' understanding of what they read and on how their understanding compares with that of natives. Also being tested is a method for investigating students'…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Content Area Reading, Discourse Analysis
