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Egidi, Giovanna; Gerrig, Richard J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
In this article, the authors examined readers' sensitivity to the match between characters' goals and characters' actions. In Experiment 1, readers integrated actions consistent with characters' goals more easily when there was a match between the extremeness of the actions and the urgency of the goals. In Experiments 2 and 3, characters'…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Reader Text Relationship, Critical Reading
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Raines, Angela Sykes; Brabham, Edna Greene; Aycock, Anna – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2007
Despite the fact that students are an important component of the educational process, their preferences for instruction are not typically a consideration for classroom practices. The purpose of this survey study was to determine high school students' preferences for methods used in the instruction of literary works of art. Students expressed…
Descriptors: High School Students, Reading Attitudes, Preferences, Reading Instruction