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Peer reviewedFagan, William T. – Reading Teacher, 1971
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Cloze Procedure, Deep Structure, Doctoral Dissertations
Layton, Pamela; Simpson, Adrian J. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1975
Subjects read sets of active or passive sentences, and an active or passive question was asked about one. Errors were compared. Results suggest that surface form of a single sentence is retained; surface and deep structures are retained for two, and only deep structures of four and eight sentences. (CHK)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Memory, Psycholinguistics, Reading Comprehension
Download full textLittle, Peter S. – 1975
This study questions the developmental nature of the ability to understand syntactic structures. An exploration is made of the possibility of learning more about reading comprehension and readability by examining responses made to sentences described by transformational grammarians as structurally ambiguous. A group of fifth grade students were…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Psycholinguistics, Readability, Reading Achievement
Brown, Eric – 1971
Two contrasting theories of reading are reviewed in light of recent research in psycholinguistics. A strictly "visual" model of fluent reading is contrasted with several mediational theories where auditory or articulatory coding is deemed necessary for comprehension. Surveying the research in visual information processing, oral reading,…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Information Theory, Linguistic Theory, Mediation Theory
