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Recall of Prose as a Function of the Structural Importance of the Linguistics Units
Johnson, Ronald E. – J Verb Learning Verb Behav, 1970
In the present study, in which narrative passages were divided into linguistic subunits and these subunits measured for their structural importance, it was determined that the structural importance of the units was related to recall. (FWB)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Discourse Analysis, Prose, Psycholinguistics
Abstractive Processes in the Remembering of Prose
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Johnson, Ronald E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1974
The patterning of recall of linguistic subunits was found to be strongly related to the semantic dimensions of abstractness-concreteness, specificity of denotation, comprehensibility, and interest. (Author/BJG)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Higher Education
Meaningfulness and the Recall of Textual Prose
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Johnson, Ronald E. – American Educational Research Journal, 1973
Research supported by a grant from the U.S. Office of Education. (DS)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Educational Psychology, Language Proficiency, Language Skills
A Series of Experiments Concerning the Relationship between Learning and the Structural Importance of Linguistic Subunits. Final Report.
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Johnson, Ronald E. – 1970
A series of seven experiments provided information on the relationship between the learning of prose and the structural importance of the linguistic subunits. Five samples of prose, including narrative folktales and two samples of textual prose, were studied to determine whether the patterning of learning corresponded to the structural importance…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Experiments, Fiction