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Lin, Huifen; Chen, Tsuiping – Language Learning & Technology, 2007
The purpose of this experimental study was to compare the effects of different types of computer-generated visuals (static versus animated) and advance organizers (descriptive versus question) in enhancing comprehension and retention of a content-based lesson for learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Additionally, the study investigated…
Descriptors: Animation, Reading Comprehension, Advance Organizers, English (Second Language)
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Tudor, Ian – Journal of Research in Reading, 1986
Describes an experiment that studied reading comprehension of French. Concludes that an advance organizer (introductory material to a reading selection) helped lower-ability students and aided the comprehension of more complex texts. (SRT)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cloze Procedure, French, Reading Comprehension
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Haus, George J.; Levine, Martin G. – Foreign Language Annals, 1985
A study investigated the effect of relevant background knowledge on the reading comprehension of students of Spanish. Students with limited knowledge of baseball took a comprehension test on a Spanish-language report of a baseball game. Results indicate that background knowledge is possibly more important than language level for comprehension.…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, Knowledge Level, Language Research
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Chun, Dorothy M.; Plass, Jan L. – System, 1996
Focuses on how reading comprehension can be facilitated with a multimedia application for second language learning. Results indicate that a dynamic visual advance organizer does aid in overall comprehension and that annotations of individual vocabulary items consisting of both visual and verbal information help more than verbal information only.…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Audiovisual Aids, French, German
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
Bialystok, Ellen; Howard, Joan – 1979
This study investigates the role of inferencing in cloze test performance and the factors that facilitate that inferencing. Four groups of high school students learning French as a second language completed sets of cloze passages under four treatment conditions. Three conditions provided a potential cue to inferencing, while the fourth was a…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Context Clues