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McArthur, Kerry G. – Reading Horizons, 2012
Concerns about adolescent literacy continue to be highlighted in regards to the challenges of reading and learning from academic text. Recent efforts to address these concerns have led to an examination of the disciplines and their specialized ways of thinking and using language. In this article I discusses a metalinguistic protocol in a…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Literacy, Teaching Methods, Reading
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Russell, William Benedict, III; Pellegrino, Anthony – Journal of Social Studies Research, 2008
Through an examination of one undergraduate American history course at a large university in the southeastern United States via interview, observation and content analysis, we attempted to discern if the pedagogical methodology was relating to the students in such a way as to foster students' ability to construct meaning beyond simply…
Descriptors: United States History, Prior Learning, Content Analysis, Lecture Method
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Calderón Pachón, Jennifer Paola; Jiménez Vargas, Milena Patricia – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2009
Seeking the best pedagogical practices for bilingual higher education and guided by the principles of the sheltered instruction observation protocol (SIOP), we describe a sub-study of the Sheltered Instruction Research Project (SIRP) which deals with how professors at ÚNICA college in Bogotá, Colombia implement one of the components of the model:…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Bilingual Education, Teaching Methods, Teaching Models
Sterner, Paula; Wedman, John – 1996
By using ill-structured problems and examining problem- solving processes, this study was conducted to explore the nature of solving complex, multistep problems, focusing on how prior knowledge, problem-solving process utilization, and analogical problem solving are related to success. Twenty-four college students qualified to participate by…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Experience, Higher Education
Stein, Victoria – 1989
This study is the sixth in a series of reports from the Reading-to-Write Project, a collaborative study of students' cognitive processes at one critical point of entry into academic performance. This report provides an in-depth look at how students use elaboration (bringing prior knowledge to a task), how much value elaborative material adds, and…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Prior Learning
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Wilson, Marilyn; Thomas, Sharon – English Education, 1995
Responds to the common assumption among English teachers that prior knowledge of a subject enhances students' ability to comprehend materials that they read. Presents evidence from the think-aloud protocols of undergraduate students to argue that having prior experience of the subjects treated in texts does not ensure that students will make…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, English Instruction, Higher Education
Afflerbach, Peter – 1987
A series of three studies examined the influence of prior knowledge on expert readers' main idea construction processes. Eight expert readers read texts from familiar and unfamiliar content domains, and gave verbal reports of the processes they used for constructing main ideas. Five distinct main idea construction processes were reported: (1)…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Prior Learning, Protocol Analysis, Psycholinguistics
Ackerman, John M. – 1990
A study explored how writers with extensive experience and learning in an academic discipline used both topical and rhetorical knowledge to construct synthesis essays. Subjects, 20 psychology graduate students and 20 business graduate students, wrote synthesis essays on either the topics of "supply-side economics" or "rehearsal in…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Content Area Writing, Critical Reading, Essays
Stein, Victoria – 1989
This study is the fifth in a series of reports from the Reading-to-Write Project, a collaborative study of students' cognitive processes at one critical point of entry into academic performance. This part of the study examines the ways in which college students interpret and negotiate an assignment that calls for reading to write. Subjects, 17…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Audience Awareness, Case Studies, Cognitive Processes