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The Limited Facilitative Effect of Typographical Signals.

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Golding, Jonathan M.; Fowler, Susan B. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1992

Two experiments with 188 college students investigated the facilitative effect of typographical signals such as underlining, headings, or other devices to help readers identify specific points. Results do not support a general facilitative effect of typographical signals but suggest that use of signals depends on the reader's strategic processing.…

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Higher Education, Readability

Improved Delivery of Lexical Information in a Computer Assisted Reading Program.

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Nara, Hiroshi – CALICO Journal, 1994

Reports on a development in interactive Japanese at a new facility where lexicographical information can be viewed with full contextual information. This information is available for any word in the 65 texts incorporated in the course. This method of showing all the collocations of a word was implemented to help users monitor progress. (24…

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Context Effect

Automaticity, Retrieval Processes, and Reading: A Longitudinal Study in Average and Impaired Readers.

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Wolf, Maryanne; And Others – Child Development, 1986

Studies the development of word-retrieval speed and its relationship to reading in 72 average and 11 severely impaired readers in kindergarten through the second grade. (HOD)

Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis

The Years Alone: A Reading Comprehension Unit (7-9).

Blair-Broeker, Lynn – 1980

Based on Bloom's Taxonomy of thought, this thematic reading comprehension unit on "loneliness" is intended for teachers of grades 7-9. The thinking process is broken into six categories: (1) recall; (2) inference; (3) application; (4) analysis; (5) synthesis; and (6) evaluation. A short description is given for each of these processes.…

Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Cognitive Processes, Convergent Thinking, Critical Reading