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The Influence of Prior Knowledge on Expert Readers' Main Idea Construction Processes. Outstanding Dissertation Monograph, 1986.
Afflerbach, Peter – 1987
A series of three studies examined the influence of prior knowledge on expert readers' main idea construction processes. Eight expert readers read texts from familiar and unfamiliar content domains, and gave verbal reports of the processes they used for constructing main ideas. Five distinct main idea construction processes were reported: (1)…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Prior Learning, Protocol Analysis, Psycholinguistics