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Donin, Janet; And Others – Discourse Processes, 1991
Studies the comprehension processes of good and poor readers within a severe to profoundly deaf orally educated population. Supports a multiprocess model where an individual's knowledge both of text structures and of specific content areas play major roles. Shows that characteristics such as age and linguistic experience are important factors in…
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Models
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Favart, Monik; Coirier, Pierre – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2006
o complementary experiments analyzed the acquisition of text content linearization in writing, in French-speaking participants from third to ninth grades. In both experiments, a scrambled text paradigm was used: eleven ideas presented in random order had to be rearranged coherently so as to compose a text. Linearization was analyzed on the basis…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Improvement, Prewriting, Grade 9
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Smith, Judith; Elkins, John – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1992
A study found that both paradigmatic and syntagmatic aspects of text were important for signifying meaning of text in the reading comprehension of 102 Australian students at 3 age levels (10, 12, and 14 years). Underlying comprehension problems was a lack of prior experience of text topics. Reading preparation through developing shared meanings is…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Coherence, Elementary Secondary Education, Knowledge Level
Trabasso, Tom – 1986
Using a recursive network transition model for depicting stories to generate two stories of contrasting structure (successive episodes organized by topic and embedded episodes organized by failed and successful goals), a study examined the understanding of the structures by having children in the third through eleventh grades rate each story…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 3