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Fischler, Ira; Bloom, Paul A. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
Experiments were conducted to determine the effects of sentence contexts on word recognition and reading. The questions of whether context is predominantly facilitating or inhibiting and how automatic the influence of contexts is on word retrieval were investigated. (SW)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Language Processing, Language Research
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Direct linkGoff, Deborah A.; Pratt, Chris; Ong, Ben – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2005
The primary aim of the current study was to identify the strongest independent predictors of reading comprehension using word reading, language and memory variables in a normal sample of 180 children in grades 3-5, with a range of word reading skills. It was hypothesized that orthographic processing, receptive vocabulary and verbal working memory…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Language Skills, Memory, Decoding (Reading)
