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Download full textLott, Deborah; And Others – 1968
A proposal that the normal reader does not pay attention to individual letters but to sets of features which are characteristic of a word as a whole is presented and tested in this investigation. It was hypothesized that the reader learns (1) to extract distinctive feature information simultaneously from several parts of the configuration and (2)…
Descriptors: Printing, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulty, Reading Materials
Philion, William L. E.; Galloway, Charles G. – J Reading, 1969
Descriptors: Black Students, Elementary Education, Indians, Reading Comprehension
PDF pending restorationCarvell, Robert L. – 1975
The purpose of this study was to compare mature readers' comprehension of text presented in traditional orthography with their comprehension of text presented in a regularized orthography, specifically, to determine whether, when traditional orthography is regularized, any loss of meaning is attributable to the loss of the visual dissimilarity of…
Descriptors: Graphemes, Morphemes, Orthographic Symbols, Phonetic Transcription
Underwood, N. R.; McConkie, G. W. – 1983
A study investigated the size of the perceptual span within which adults use visual information to distinguish among letters as they read. The eye movements of fifteen college students were monitored as they read passages from a cathode-ray tube. On occasional fixations, letters in specified visual regions were replaced by other letters. The…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Eye Fixations, Eye Movements
Arnold, Richard D. – 1971
Thirty-two Afro-American and 50 Mexican-American seventh graders were randomly selected from a school located in a central Texas low socioeconomic environment. The subjects were administered the New Developmental Reading Tests, The Silent Reading Diagnostic Tests, and The California Short-Form Test of Mental Maturity. When the two groups were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Black Students, Conference Reports, Disadvantaged Youth
Fisher, Dennis F. – 1976
Some basic pattern-analyzing functions that occur during the reading process are described in this paper. The functions deal mainly with the analysis of typographical factors such as word shape, spacing, and orientation, but they also interact with contextual variables. The research interpreted in the paper proposes an attentional model of reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Conference Reports, Eye Movements
Dawson, Mildred A., Comp. – 1971
A series of articles with the chief emphasis on phonics as a means of analyzing words is presented. Various articles pertain to elementary, secondary, and college level instruction. The first of the five parts into which the volume is divided is comprised of a single article which gives an excellent overview of the field of word recognition. Part…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, College Students, Context Clues, Elementary School Students
Dawson, Mildred A., Comp. – 1971
A series of articles with the chief emphasis on phonics as a means of analyzing words is presented. Various articles pertain to elementary, secondary, and college level instruction. The first of the five parts into which the volume is divided is comprised of a single article which gives an excellent overview of the field of word recognition. Part…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, College Students, Context Clues, Elementary School Students
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 17 titles deal with the following topics: disadvantaged and nondisadvantaged students' detection of written fallacies in reasoning; the effects of remedial reading instruction, a camp-style reading/study program, and reading…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Auditory Training, Black Students, Compensatory Education
