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Download full textWebb, Stuart – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2021
Studies of lexical coverage are valuable because they reveal the importance of vocabulary knowledge to comprehension. Lexical profiling research is also extremely useful because it indicates the vocabulary knowledge necessary to understand different text types such as novels, newspapers, academic lectures, television programs, and movies.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Barr, Rebecca – Interchange, 1974
The author attempts to develop a theory of learning to account for complex human learning using early reading as an example. (HMD)
Descriptors: Early Reading, Learning Processes, Learning Theories, Reading Ability
Snowman, Jack; Cunningham, Donald J. – 1974
The present study was designed to replicate findings concerning the effect of question position on retention of practiced and non-practiced information and to further evaluate the robustness of the mathemagenic concept by comparing the effectiveness of subject-generated pictures as adjunct aids with written multiple choice questions. The subjects…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Educational Media, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedSippola, Arne E. – Reading Teacher, 1985
Reviews literature on different aspects of reading readiness, then presents a reading readiness material analysis inventory constructed according to the findings of the review. Explains how the instrument can be used by educators to compare readiness program materials. (FL)
Descriptors: Child Development, Learning Processes, Learning Readiness, Primary Education
Nagy, William E.; And Others – 1985
A study was conducted to investigate incidental learning of word meanings from context during normal reading. Subjects were 129 third grade, 85 fifth grade, and 138 seventh grade students of differing comprehension ability who first completed a vocabulary checklist containing target words and distractors, then read either expository or narrative…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Elementary Education, Incidental Learning, Learning Processes
Hall, Cynthia King – 1977
This study investigated the effects of graphic advance organizers and schematic cognitive-mapping organizers upon the comprehension of 146 ninth grade students of below-average reading ability. Students were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: graphic advance organizer, schematic cognitive-map organizer, and control. A 15-item, informal…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Grade 9, Graphs, Junior High Schools
Thorndyke, Perry W.; Hayes-Roth, Barbara – 1979
This report documents a series of studies on how undergraduate students learn from and reason with textual information. The studies described were undertaken to produce models that could serve as the basis for designing computer systems capable of structuring and presenting text material in optimal formats. Divided into sections, the report…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, Directed Reading Activity, Higher Education
Armbruster, Bonnie B.; And Others – 1983
Noting that metacognition plays a vital role in reading, this report summarizes research dealing with the development of metacognition in an especially important type of reading--reading to learn. The report is organized around four categories of metacognitive knowledge and control: (1) the text, (2) the task to be performed by the learner as…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Knowledge Level, Learning Processes
Hayes, David A.; Tierney, Robert J. – 1980
One hundred eleventh and twelfth grade students were grouped according to their knowledge of and interest in baseball and were then tested for their recall of information presented with varying levels and amounts of background information and analogy. The information was presented in the following ways: (1) analogy embedded in text, (2) analogy…
Descriptors: Analogy, Content Area Reading, Discourse Analysis, Grade 11
LAFFEY, JAMES L. – 1968
A LISTING OF 143 IMPORTANT RESEARCH REPORTS COMPLETED ON READING AND CLOSELY RELATED TOPICS COVERING PRESCHOOL THROUGH COLLEGE AND ADULT YEARS IS PRESENTED. RELEVANT ISSUES OF "RESEARCH IN EDUCATION," THE "OFFICE OF EDUCATION RESEARCH REPORTS, 19656-65, RESUMES" (OE-12029, $1.75), AND "OFFICE OF EDUCATION RESEARCH REPORTS, 1956-65, INDEXES"…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged, Dropouts
Zimmer, Richard L. – 1973
This end-of-project report disucsses the procedures that the Dubuque Community School District followed in conducting research on learning the styles and conditions under which elementary school-aged children learn best. The testing program that was developed consisted of administering the Tests of Modality Aptitudes in Reading (TOMAR), the…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Elementary Education, Learning, Learning Processes
Story Structure and Reader Affect in American and Hungarian Short Stories. Technical Report No. 375.
Brewer, William F.; Ohtsuka, Keisuke – 1986
Forty-eight college students participated in a study that (1) explored the degree to which the reader response technique developed by W. F. Brewer and E. H. Lichtenstein to study artificial texts could be applied to natural texts, and (2) compared texts written over a wide time period and from two different literary traditions (six American and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Higher Education, Learning Processes
Anderson, Richard C.; And Others – 1984
The results of a series of investigations into the effect on children's learning and recall of interest are summarized in this report. The report describes investigations using sentences, showing that interest has a pervasive effect on learning that is independent of the relationship between attention and learning. It then presents two compatible…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Content Area Reading
