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Sara J. Margolin; Timothy Brackins – Educational Gerontology, 2024
Negated text is a difficult text construction that readers encounter in various forms throughout their lives. Despite a wealth of research on its impact, including potential strategies to improve comprehension, readers maintain poor comprehension when encountering this text construction. Given its large potential impact on reading texts like…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Accuracy
Zang, Chuanli; Meng, Hongxia; Liang, Feifei; Bai, Xuejun; Yan, Guoli – Journal of Research in Reading, 2013
In this study, we examined whether Chinese character structure influenced readers' saccadic targeting in Chinese reading. Readers' eye movements were recorded when they read single sentences containing one-character or two-character target words. Both the one-character words and the two constituent characters of two-character words either had a…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Sentence Structure, Reader Text Relationship, Protocol Analysis
Johnson, Marcus L.; Lowder, Matthew W.; Gordon, Peter C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2011
In 2 experiments, the authors used an eye tracking while reading methodology to examine how different configurations of common noun phrases versus unusual noun phrases (NPs) influenced the difference in processing difficulty between sentences containing object- and subject-extracted relative clauses. Results showed that processing difficulty was…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Eye Movements, Reading Comprehension, Sentences

Rush, Robert J.; Klare, George R. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1978
Closely examined the effects of word length cues on cloze scores. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Students, Cues, Reading Research
Hatch, Evelyn – 1971
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of focus (subject, object, and possessive) and embedding position (center vs. right) on kindergarten and second-grade subjects' responses to relative clauses. Twenty kindergarten and 20 second-grade children served as subjects. The subjects were middle-class, Anglo children who had not begun…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Reaction Time, Reading Research, Search Strategies

Beaumont, Clare – Journal of Research in Reading, 1982
Concludes that children were better able to comprehend sentences containing pronouns that functioned as objects in relative clauses, but that in clauses where the pronoun functioned as subject, its presence or absence was not important. (FL)
Descriptors: Primary Education, Pronouns, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
Klare, George R. – 1975
One of the ways to handle the increasing demands on readers' skills is to make writing more readable. The problem has two different aspects: predicting how readable writing will be to a reader, and producing writing that is readable to that reader. Prediction is relatively simple, and can be done statistically with readability formulas. Production…
Descriptors: Motivation, Psycholinguistics, Readability, Reading Comprehension

Richek, Margaret Ann – Reading Research Quarterly, 1976
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research

Journal of Reading, 1982
Reports on a study that found people could follow instructions from flowcharts or lists more quickly and accurately than from prose. (HOD)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Instructional Design, Mathematical Logic, Reading Research
Dixon, Peter – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1982
Describes three experiments designed to investigate the effect of sentence organization on the comprehension of procedural directions. Ease of comprehension was determined by measuring reading time for two different sentence patterns, while subjects followed instructions to operate an unfamiliar device. Experimental results showed that…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Reading Comprehension, Reading Rate, Reading Research

Kemper, Susan; Catlin, Jack – Language and Speech, 1979
Two experiments offer clear support for an interactive view of sentence comprehension; semantic factors do interact with syntactic factors. (RL)
Descriptors: Language Processing, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Research
Kennison, Shelia M. – 1994
In English, the word 'to' functions as a preposition (e.g., 'to the store') and also as part of an infinitive (e.g., 'to go'). Two experiments investigated how the word 'to' is resolved by fluent undergraduate student readers. Readers comprehended sentences that contained the word 'to' preceded by sentence context that either did or did not…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Higher Education, Prepositions, Reading Comprehension

Dalgleish, B. W. J.; Enkelmann, S. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1979
The present experiment with retarded and normal readers was designed to test comprehension across major segmental boundaries, an aspect of syntax raised by generative grammars, and to relate the comprehension problem to other correlates of reading retardation by choosing a problem in which ordering strategies may be adopted. (Author/KC)
Descriptors: Children, Generative Grammar, Pronouns, Reading Comprehension

Soltis, Judith M.; Pflaum, Susanna W. – Reading World, 1979
Reports the effect of the study of connectives on the reading comprehension of 41 seventh- and eighth-grade students. Indicates that the study of connectives had a positive effect on reading achievement. (TJ)
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
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