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Peer reviewedSinger, Harry – Reading Research Quarterly, 1980
Critiques an experiment by M. Arlin, M. Scott, and J. Webster (see EJ 206 153) in which their pictures as an aid to learning hypothesis contrasts with the focal attention hypothesis supported by research by H. Singer, S. J. Samuels, and J. Spiroff (see EJ 105 648). (MKM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Pictorial Stimuli, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedArlin, Marshall; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1978
Kindergarten students were taught words with or without pictures to test the focal attention hypothesis that pictures interfere with sight-word learning. In this study, pictures presented with words facilitated rather than hindered learning. (MKM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Kindergarten, Pictorial Stimuli, Primary Education
Download full textElman, Elaine – 1973
This study was designed to investigate the differences in effectiveness in teaching sight words to kindergarten children by using words only (no-picture group), words and simple pictures (simple-picture group), and words and complex pictures (complex-picture group). The subjects were 30 kindergarten children selected from two kindergarten classes.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Kindergarten Children, Paired Associate Learning, Pictorial Stimuli
