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McConkie, George W.; Zola, David – 1984
To examine the nature of forward saccadic eye movements in reading, eye movement records were collected from college students as they read a short passage. Forward saccades from this data set were analyzed to determine factors influencing the likelihood of any given letter in the text being the recipient of the next fixation. Data indicated that…
Descriptors: College Students, Eye Fixations, Eye Movements, Higher Education
Cowart, Wayne – 1985
An experiment replicating earlier research on the pronoun bias effect in reading comprehension, in which the pronoun "they" in an auditory fragment influences the syntactic analysis of an ambiguous expression, used a new technique in which words in a fragment are cumulated on an electronic monitor rather than being presented one by one.…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Context Clues, Pronouns, Reading Comprehension

Riccio, Cynthia A.; Hynd, George W. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1996
Research findings from autopsy studies, neuroimaging, functional imaging, and electrophysiological measures specific to dyslexia have provided a better understanding of the reading process, particularly as it applies to individuals with dyslexia. Evidence from these studies pertaining to the neurological origins of dyslexia is reviewed, and…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Dyslexia, Elementary Secondary Education, Etiology
Siegel, Marjorie – 1984
A transactional investigation of reading considers comprehension to be more than the duplication of the author's message. Rather, it entails the readers' interpretation of the textual representation that he or she has constructed. Thus, researchers must ask how the reader duplicated the author's creative role. The goal, in other words, is to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Ethnography, Literacy, Reading Comprehension

Ehrlich, Marie-France; Tardieu, Hubert – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1991
Discusses a study of fast and slow adult readers' textual organization subprocesses. Reveals that title and text type variables were manipulated in the study. Concludes that fast and slow readers processed textual organization similarly and showed identical comprehension performances. Calls for research into the characteristics of good…
Descriptors: Adults, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Reading Comprehension
Kitao, S. Kathleen; Kitao, Kenji – 1986
Reflecting recent widespread interest in schema theory, this bibliography is intended to assist anyone interested in how the topic relates to reading. The introduction defines schema theory as the study of generic knowledge structures--called schemata--which are composed of "slots" or "placeholders" for each component, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Structures, Context Clues, Context Effect

Karanth, Prathibha – Topics in Language Disorders, 2002
This article argues for widening the research base on reading from the specific constraints of reading in alphabetic scripts to a larger database covering a variety of scripts. Several recent studies on reading the alphasyllabaries of India are reviewed. Findings indicate that alphasyllabaries are not processed in the same manner as alphabets.…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Linguistics
Lefebvre-Pinard, Monique; And Others – 1983
Because current research offers little conclusive evidence that explicit metacognitive knowledge is necessary for effective reading, a study was designed to determine (1) if comprehension could be enhanced by activating subjects' awareness of appropriate strategies, and (2) which strategies, based on subjects' spontaneous reports, were most…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Memory, Metacognition, Questionnaires
Oxford-Carpenter, Rebecca L.; Schultz-Shiner, Linda J. – 1985
This paper addresses practical Army problems in reading assessment from a theory base reflecting the most recent research on reading comprehension. Military and occupational research shows that reading proficiency is related to job performance. Reading assessment is a key issue in the Army due to changes in the reading ability levels of the Army…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Military Personnel, Postsecondary Education, Psychometrics
Oakhill, Jane, Ed.; Beard, Roger, Ed. – 1999
In recent years, there has been increasing emphasis on the idea of reading as a "socio-cultural" phenomenon, derived from the idea that reading is not an isolated skill but is necessarily related to the purposes reading will be put to in particular social and cultural contexts. This collection of essays acknowledges the undoubted…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cultural Context, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries

Eng, Nancy; Obler, Loraine K. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2002
This case study examines the reading disruptions in a bilingual/biscriptal (Cantonese/English) older adult reader following traumatic brain injury. Certain characteristics of the subject's reading problems were evident in both writing systems (e.g., sensitivity to word frequency and lack of sensitivity to visual complexity) suggesting principles…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cantonese, Case Studies, Dyslexia
Mosenthal, James H.; Tierney, Robert J. – 1983
Text analysis systems, imposing coherence measures derived from the reader's and writer's notions of how a text functions in communication, produce descriptions of texture, or the totality of cohesive ties in a text. The question is if cohesion analysis, more than offering a linguistic description of text, can serve as a psychological model of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis
Kemper, Susan – 1983
As comprehension failure results whenever readers are unable to infer missing causal connections, recent comprehension research has focused both on assessing the inferential complexity of texts and on investigating students' developing ability to infer causal relationships. Studies have demonstrated that texts rely on four types of causal…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Influences
Read, Stephen J. – 1983
To determine the impact of causal relationships and shared features in the use of analogy, subjects in two separate studies were informed of the behavior of six members of a little known primitive tribe and asked to make predictions on the behavior of additional tribe members based on their perceived similarities with the original group. Results…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Analogy, Higher Education, Knowledge Level

Bower, Gordon H.; Morrow, Daniel G. – Science, 1990
Reviews the research on how readers or listeners construct mental models of the situation a writer or speaker is describing. Narrative components and spatial models are discussed. (YP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Comprehension, Language Processing