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Beker, Katinka; van den Broek, Paul; Jolles, Dietsje – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
Constructing a knowledge representation from multiple texts requires the integration of information across texts. The aim of the current study was to investigate how elementary school students integrate information across multiple text passages and, particularly, whether students use information from a prior text to improve understanding of a…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 6
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Blanc, Nathalie; Stiegler-Balfour, Jennifer J.; O'Brien, Edward J. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Participants read a series of news articles, each containing a target event followed by 2 causes. To study the ease with which readers update their mental representation as they proceed through the text, the certainty of the first cause was manipulated: It was presented as either a certain explanation of the subsequent target event or as a…
Descriptors: Evidence, Journal Articles, Reading Materials, Reading Processes
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Noordman, Leo G. M.; Vonk, Wietske – Discourse Processes, 1998
Focuses on the role of cognitive structures in the reader's knowledge. Argues that causality is an important category in structuring human knowledge and that this property has consequences for text processing. Discusses research illustrating that the more the information in the text reflects causal categories, the more easily the information is…
Descriptors: Knowledge Representation, Language Processing, Language Research, Memory