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Ellison, Joseph Lee – 1974
The purpose of this study was to determine whether there were any differences between the responses made by selected college students to information presented in a visual context and to the same basic information presented in a verbal context. Selected college students were asked to respond to pictorial information and to the same basic…
Descriptors: College Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Memory
Swanson, H. Lee – Learning Disabilities Research, 1986
Sixteen skilled and 16 learning disabled (LD) readers (ages 11-12) viewed nonsense pictures either without names, with names that emphasized the semantic aspects of the picture, or with names unassociated with the pictorial representation. Results suggested that semantic coding deficits in LD readers were localized to retrieval processes.…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities, Memory
Peer reviewedGuttentag, Robert E. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1979
Twenty-two third-grade good and poor readers were tested for their ability to name pictures while trying to ignore words or nonword strings of letters printed inside the pictures. Both groups experienced more interference from intracategory than extracategory words, indicating that they processed the words automatically. Only the good readers…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities, Pictorial Stimuli, Reading Difficulty
Peer reviewedGauvenet, H. – Educational Media International, 1974
A brief discussion on how pictures are related to written text. (HB)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Cognitive Processes, Language Instruction, Multimedia Instruction
Castle, Marrietta Walden – 1986
Based on the notion that visual decisions play an important role in what children recognize and interpret in books and that teachers have a special responsibility to help students become visually literate, this article draws parallels between visual and verbal concepts and suggests some activities for teaching "picture reading" skills in the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Multisensory Learning, Pictorial Stimuli, Reader Text Relationship
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
Greenfield, Patricia Marks; Alvarez, Maria Gabriela – 1978
Nonverbal context is important in the language acquisition process. The present study compares different amounts and ordering of pictorial context with respect to their effect on learning word-referent relations in a second language. Twenty-five monolingual English-speaking high school students were shown twenty Spanish sentences and pictures of…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Context Clues
