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Peleg, Ziva R.; Moore, Robert F. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1982
The effectiveness of D. Ausubel's Advance Organizer, an introduction presented before the material to be taught, was tested with 96 mildly retarded adolescents. Results of a three-way analysis of variance indicated a facilitative effect under the written presentation, especially for high-level questions and a negative effect under the oral…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Advance Organizers, Learning Processes, Listening Comprehension

Guttmann, Joseph; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1977
Investigations of the effects of visual imagery and pictorial stimuli on young children's oral prose learning indicated: (1) age differences affect the ability to profit from self-generated imagery; (2) experimenter-provided cues help to generate imagery; and (3) the type of cue provided relates to the kind of information recalled. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aural Learning, Learning Processes, Listening Comprehension

Davis, Albert J.; Hathaway, Betty K. – Reading Psychology, 1986
Findings imply that while preschool children both enjoy and profit from listening to stories read to them in unelaborated fashion, they gain much more from observing and participating in the actions portrayed in the stories. (FL)
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Listening Comprehension, Perceptual Motor Learning