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Peer reviewedMandler, Jean M. – Discourse Processes, 1987
Respectively, three experiments indicate that (1) people can identify all the terminal units in stories as well as different kinds of episodic structure; (2) when attention was focused on the intermediate units, the Goal Path emerged in the judgments; and (3) the same judgments about terminal units were made even when the number of sentences per…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Psychological Studies, Reading Comprehension
McKeown, Gerry; Freebody, Peter – Australian Journal of Reading, 1988
Argues that many interventions for introducing Aboriginal children to literacy continue to be based on "language deficit" models. Examines whether there is indeed a mismatch between the nonstandard spoken language of some Aboriginal children and textbook language. (RAE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cohesion (Written Composition), Dialects, Discourse Analysis
