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Liew, Jeffrey; Erbeli, Florina; Nyanamba, Juliet M.; Li, Danni – Reading Psychology, 2020
Reading competence is one of the main gateways to learning and serves as the foundation for nearly all academic subjects, but reading is not a natural skill. For beginning and struggling readers, the process of learning to read is often fraught with frustration. Thus, abilities to manage affect or emotions and maintain attention or focus (i.e.…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Self Control, Reading Skills, Reading Motivation
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Cassady, Jerrell C.; Smith, Lawrence L.; Putman, S. Michael – Reading Psychology, 2008
The theoretical and practical implications of examining young children's acquisitions of phonological awareness skills with specific and differentiated processing tasks are explored in this study. The study presents data from 269 kindergarten children completing a phonological awareness protocol that provided information on 14 discrete…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Phonological Awareness, Kindergarten, Literacy
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Downing, John – Reading Psychology, 1981
Argues that reading professionals should not reject or neglect theory merely because it is old and offers Jack Holmes' Substrata Factor Theory as a case in point. Reviews the statistical, neurological, and psychological models in Holmes' theory and points out their potential for stimulating further theoretical thought. (FL)
Descriptors: Models, Reading Processes, Reading Research, Research Methodology
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Trabasso, Tom – Reading Psychology, 1989
Describes an analytical model which provides explicit criteria to identify possible causal relations that a reader might infer between events in order to arrive at a coherent representation of the text. Applies the model to a story, discusses its psychological validity, and compares it to other models of text representation, comprehension, and…
Descriptors: Models, Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes
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Fry, Pamela G. – Reading Psychology, 1994
Argues that a model of metaphorical thinking developed by 18th-century Italian rhetorician Giambattista Vico demonstrates how meaning is constructed in the reading process. Presents key Vichian concepts, followed by an explanation of how metaphors are created to construct new meaning. Compares the process to an interactive model of reading. (RS)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Metaphors, Models, Reading
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Mcginnis, Debra; Saunders, Nikola N.; Burns, Ryan J. – Reading Psychology, 2007
To examine metacomprehension during comprehension, undergraduates (n = 133) were asked to provide descriptions of how they determined the meaning of four rare words presented in short passages. Content analysis of these written descriptions revealed task-specific metacomprehension reflecting lexical, textbase, and situation model processes.…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Content Analysis, Individual Differences, Undergraduate Students
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Blanton, William E.; Wood, Karen D.; Taylor, D. Bruce – Reading Psychology, 2007
Research on subject matter instruction across the 20th century (e.g., Stevens, 1912; Bellack, 1966; Hoetker & Ahlbrand; 1969; Gall, 1970; Langer, 1999; Mehan, 1979; Nystrand, 1997;) reveals a preponderance of teacher-directed lecture, recitation, and round-robin reading of text in place of instruction that focuses on reading-to-learn, thinking,…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Educational Strategies, Middle Schools, Reading Research
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Fletcher, Charles R. – Reading Psychology, 1989
Attempts to unify two major approaches to the study of text comprehension into a process model of causal reasoning which explains how readers discover the causal structure of a complicated text. Presents empirical evidence to support the model. (RS)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Models, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes
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Cohen, Ivan Keith – Reading Psychology, 1986
Suggests that the application of the economists' paradigm, which is that an economic entity will behave in a positive way if he or she perceives the benefits of that behavior as outweighing the costs, can be applied to the problem of reading difficulties. (DF)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Economics, Learning Theories, Models
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Neuhaus, Graham F.; Roldan, Luis W.; Boulware-Gooden, Regina; Swank, Paul R. – Reading Psychology, 2006
Parsimonious models of word recognition and reading comprehension were validated in a sample of third-grade readers. Word recognition was modeled as phonological awareness, decoding skill, and word processing rate. This model demonstrated the importance of unitization of letter clusters for efficient word reading. A curvilinear relation between…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Word Processing, Word Recognition, Reading Comprehension
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van den Broek, Paul – Reading Psychology, 1989
Describes how narrative texts can be represented as networks of causally related statements or events and presents empirical evidence that the networks predict performance on reading comprehension. Compares network theory to other theories of discourse comprehension. Suggests implications of causal representations for reading and composition…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Memory, Models, Prior Learning