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Song, Ningyuan; Chen, Kejun; Jin, Xiufang; Zhao, Yuehua – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: In the digital environment, users' academic reading behaviour has changed, working with many articles simultaneously to search, filter, scan, link, annotate and analyse content fragments. The semantic enhancement environment has been widely set with semantic technologies to offer additional and handy support for users and thus…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Reading Skills, Semantics, Cognitive Processes
Ryan, Ellen Bouchard; Willows, Dale M. – 1979
To assess the extent to which syntactic and semantic information guides the reading performance of skilled and less-skilled readers in the intermediate grades, a study was conducted involving 96 fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students. The students were matched both within and across grade level on nonverbal IQ and within each grade level on age.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Elementary Education
Sears, Peter – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1986
Reviews a book entitled "Secret Writing: Keys to the Mysteries of Reading and Writing" and presents exercises from the book that are designed to improve students' reading and writing skills. (DF)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Instructional Materials
Anders, Patricia L. – 1983
A study investigated whether semantic feature analysis (SFA) significantly improves the content related vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension of adolescent, learning disabled readers. SFA is a set of vocabulary development activities designed to help students categorize vocabulary words and compare related ideas. Subjects, 62 learning…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Thinking, Distinctive Features (Language), High Schools