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Braasch, Jason L. G.; Bråten, Ivar – Educational Psychologist, 2017
Despite the importance of source attention and evaluation for learning from texts, little is known about the particular conditions that encourage sourcing during reading. In this article, basic assumptions of the discrepancy-induced source comprehension (D-ISC) model are presented, which describes the moment-by-moment cognitive processes that…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Cognitive Processes, Models, Text Structure
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Wannagat, Wienke; Waizenegger, Gesine; Hauf, Juliane; Nieding, Gerhild – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2018
This study investigated the effects of auditory and audiovisual text presentation on the three levels of mental representations assumed in theories of discourse processing. A sample of 106 children aged 7, 9, and 11 years listened to 16 short narrative texts, 8 of which were accompanied by a series of pictures illustrating the content.…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Discourse Analysis, Memory, Models
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Fletcher, Charles R.; Chrysler, Susan T. – Discourse Processes, 1990
Presents evidence that indicates recognition memory consists of three separate representations: a surface representation, a propositional textbase, and a situation model. (KEH)
Descriptors: Memory, Models, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Research
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Storkerson, Peter; Wong, Janine – Visible Language, 1997
Posits that intelligibility is a persistent problem in interactive multimedia and hypermedia. Describes the Art of Memory, a visual and symbolic mnemonic method used to map new information onto familiar and symbolically different structures. Presents the Art of Memory as a way to offer insight into intelligibility. (PA)
Descriptors: Hypermedia, Information Processing, Memory, Mnemonics
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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
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Coirier, Pierre; Favart, Monik; Chanquoy, Lucile – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2002
The goal of this study was to analyze the development of the relationship between conceptual and linguistic processes as regards idea ordering and structuring (linearizing), when composing a text. Participants (from 7th graders to University students) were required to compose a text using a list of eleven scrambled ideas. Conceptual rules allow to…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Linguistics, Models, Cluster Grouping
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Hartley, James – British Journal of Educational Technology, 1994
Reviews research literature on the design of text for older readers. Topics include improving typographically simple layouts through the use of larger type, more readable text, clearer layouts, and summaries, headings and signals; and improving typographically complex texts such as income tax forms, diagrams, and procedural instructions. (31…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Aging (Individuals), Diagrams, Flow Charts