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Direct linkBolger, Donald J.; Balass, Michal; Landen, Eve; Perfetti, Charles A. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
This article proposes an instance-based theoretical framework to account for the influence of both contexts and definitions on learning new word meanings and reports 2 studies that examine hypotheses about learning from context. One is that variation in contexts is important for allowing core meaning features of a word to emerge. The second is…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Definitions, Familiarity
Spearritt, D.; And Others – 1977
A battery of reading tests designed to identify the component skills involved in reading comprehension was administered to 624 sixth grade students in the metropolitan Sydney (Australia) schools. Factor analysis of the data showed that knowledge of word meanings, sentence comprehension, and semantic context are experimentally identifiable…
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, Context Clues, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
