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Aryadoust, Vahid – International Journal of Listening, 2019
This article proposes an integrated cognitive theory of reading and listening that draws on a maximalist account of comprehension and emphasizes the role of bottom-up and top-down processing. The theoretical framework draws on the findings of previous research and integrates them into a coherent and plausible narrative to explain and predict the…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Cognitive Processes, Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension
Henk, William A. – 1982
Behaviorism cannot adequately explain language processing. A synthesis of the psycholinguistic and information processing approaches of cognitive psychology, however, can provide the basis for a speculative analysis of reading, if this synthesis is tempered by a perceptual learning theory of uncertainty reduction. Theorists of information…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Skills, Learning Theories, Models
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Marks, Sonia – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1977
This paper reviews some of the strategies the receiver uses in the process of comprehending a message in a foreign language and discusses some of the ways in which the listener/reader goes beyond the actual physical form of the message during this process. The role of guessing is discussed in the context of the following theories: the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deep Structure, Guessing (Tests)