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Peer reviewedBackman, Jarl – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1978
A text was presented on three levels with regard to lexical density (LD - the quota of lexical words/total amount of words in a sentence). 132 subjects' comprehension of the text (discourse comprehension) was tested by a knowledge test and by subjective ratings. Results for discourse and single-sentence analysis were discussed as well as…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Educational Research, Illustrations, Lexicology
Download full textOlson, Gary M. – 1983
This report describes research that focused on the comprehension and composition of simple texts. The first section reviews the overall goals and theoretical perspectives of the project. The second section describes the following studies carried out during the project: analysis and extension of prior thinking-out-loud (TOL) data, TOL and reading…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes
Peer reviewedStevenson, Rosemary J.; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1994
Two experiments investigated the focusing properties of thematic roles, and a third examined the view that thematic role preferences reflect a focusing on the consequences of the represented event. Results focus on the structure of represented events, top-down and bottom-up processes, thematic hierarchies and pronoun comprehension. (35 references)…
Descriptors: College Students, Connected Discourse, Context Clues, Discourse Analysis
Bousquet, Robert J. – 1980
Many factors influence the comprehension of a linguistic act by a listener or reader. Some, such as maturity, background, and interests of the decoder are nonlinguistic; others, such as the vocabulary and complexity of the morphological and syntactical structures are linguistic in nature. A review of the literature reveals that while studies have…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Deep Structure, Difficulty Level, Linguistics
Peer reviewedCaplan, David; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1994
Reports five experiments; the first two assessed the effect of the selectional restriction requirements of verbs and the animacy of nouns on sentence comprehension, the third determined the cause of the interaction found in the first set of studies, and the fourth and fifth were self-paced reading experiments. (52 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: College Students, Conceptual Tempo, Data Analysis, Graphs
Daiker, Donald A., Ed.; And Others – 1979
Drawn from a conference that addressed the role of sentence combining in the teaching of writing, the papers in this collection are divided into three sections: the theory of sentence combining, research in sentence combining, and sentence combining in the classroom. The 22 papers discuss a variety of topics, including the following: (1) sentence…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, English Instruction, Higher Education, Paragraph Composition
