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Follettie, Joseph F. – 1971
A view of word-phrase comprehension instruction as making joint use of language mediation and inductive approaches to secure concept learning is presented. The concept learning task considered appears appropriate to objectives of primary instruction and at variance with tasks that typify concept learning research. (Author)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Concept Formation, Induction, Learning Processes
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McNinch, George H.; And Others – Educational Research Quarterly, 1981
The effects of visual prompting, aural prompting, and visual/aural prompting on the representation of words or phrases received aurally were investigated. Results indicated that prereading children responded differently to phrases received in normal language versus the other cued conditions. (Author/GK)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Auditory Stimuli, Cues, Kindergarten Children
SAMUELS, S. JAY – 1966
AN EXPERIMENT WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE EFFECT OF 2-WORD ASSOCIATIONS IN LEARNING TO READ THE SECOND WORD OF A 2-WORD CHAIN. ABOUT 45 FIRST AND SECOND GRADE STUDENTS WERE CHOSEN AS SUBJECTS AFTER PRETESTING TO INSURE THEY WERE ABLE TO READ THE FIRST (STIMULUS) WORD BUT NOT THE SECOND (RESPONSE) WORD OF EACH WORD PAIR USED IN THE STUDY. EIGHT…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Learning Experience, Primary Education, Reading Achievement
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Katz, Leonard; Baldasare, John – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
Phonological coding in printed-word recognition in English was studied by examining the use made of syllable information by skilled and less skilled readers in the second grade and by adults. The results are discussed in terms of an interactive model of reading. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Adults, Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Comparative Analysis
Schwantes, Frederick M. – 1983
Two experiments investigated the effects of preceding sentence context on the naming times of sentence completion words in third-grade children and college students. In the first study subjects were shown incomplete sentences with four types of target words: best completions; semantically and syntactically appropriate, but less likely completions;…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Associative Learning, Attention, Cognitive Processes
Koehler, John; And Others – 1971
In this study, eight groups of kindergarten children were trained to discriminate position and order differences in verbal and nonverbal item sequences in the context of a matching task or an associative learning task or both. Transfer was measured by having the subjects sight learn a list of words contrasting in position and order. Subsequently,…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Beginning Reading, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading)
Griffin, Margaret May – 1969
This study investigated the ability of second-grade children to employ initial and final consonant substitution as a technique in word identification. An instrument of 44 one-syllable simulated words and a measurement to ascertain consonant phoneme knowledge were used to study 90 second-grade pupils, approximately equal in general characteristics.…
Descriptors: Association Measures, Associative Learning, Consonants, English Instruction
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Howell, Helen – Reading Teacher, 1987
Outlines diverse strategies (contextual clues, palindromes, figurative language/idioms, etc.) for increasing vocabulary skills of gifted readers in the lower primary grades, using children's literature to supplement good tradebooks. (NKA)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Associative Learning, Childrens Literature, Context Clues