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Peer reviewedLong, Debra L.; And Others – Discourse Processes, 1996
Explains how five experiments were conducted to examine readers' access to backgrounded causal information in the absence of a local coherence break. States that participants read surprise-ending stories in which some story actions were explained by information in the preceding context and others were not. Finds that participants receiving prior…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
Peer reviewedMcNamara, Danielle S.; Kintsch, Walter – Discourse Processes, 1996
Investigates effects of prior knowledge on learning from high- and low-coherence history texts. Examines participants' comprehension in two experiments. Finds high-knowledge readers performed better on open-ended questions after reading low-coherence text. Indicates that low-coherence text requires more inference processes--these inferences are…
Descriptors: Coherence, Higher Education, Inferences, Prior Learning
Peer reviewedHaenggi, Dieter; Perfetti, Charles A. – Discourse Processes, 1994
Investigates the reading comprehension skills of 34 college students, particularly the roles of basic reading processes and prior knowledge in understanding expository texts. Indicates that word identification and propositional encoding measures were related to individual differences in reading comprehension ability. (HB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education
