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Young, Dolly J. – Modern Language Journal, 1999
Examined types of simplifications made in four authentic texts used in the second-language classroom, and investigated if there were differences in recall scores based on whether students read simplified or authentic versions. Findings indicated that a high percentage of modifications made were lexical in nature and that recall scores for…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Reading Comprehension
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Havholm, Peter; Stewart, Larry – Computers and the Humanities, 1996
Argues that the explicit consideration of literary theory has become increasingly important in the fields of textual studies and in undergraduate literature studies. Introduces the use of hypertext and the Linear Modeling Kit to model structuralist ideas about narrative. Shows that modeling stimulates student questioning and discussion. (DSK)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Higher Education
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Munk, Dennis D.; Bruckert, Jana; Call, Deborah T.; Stoehrmann, Traci; Radandt, Erin – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1998
Provides an overview of curricular and instructional adaptations, modifications, and methods that have been used to provide science instruction to students with learning disabilities. Strategies are described within the context of a textbook-based unit on the solar system. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Inclusive Schools, Learning Disabilities
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Lachs, Vivi; Wiliam, Dylan – Journal of Computing in Childhood Education, 1998
Two studies compared the process of authoring non-linear or linear stories with HyperCard by inner-city primary school students. Found that, with minimal support, primary school students were capable of constructing hypermedia stories with complex non-linear structures and that the use of non-linear structures appeared to encourage the integration…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Elementary School Students, Hypermedia
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Unsworth, Len – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1993
Studies by Unsworth and Williams (1988, 1990) compared the textual variation of purpose-written big books with literary texts. Purpose-written big books help children to predict repetitive clauses that realize explicit and simplistic meanings. (Contains six references.) (JP)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Books, Childrens Literature, Cues
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Walter, Catherine – Applied Linguistics, 2004
Two notions from cognitive psychology were examined in relation to the transfer of reading comprehension skills from L1 to L2: (1) the notion that reading comprehension proceeds by the comprehender's building of a mental structure representing the text and (2) the notion of working memory. Two groups of French learners of English (at…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Intermediate Grades, Memory
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Roman Sanchez, Jose Maria – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2004
Introduction: Experimental validation of a self-regulated learning procedure for university students, i.e. the "meaningful text-reading" strategy, is reported in this paper. The strategy's theoretical framework is the "ACRA Model" of learning strategies. The strategy consists of a flexible, recurring sequence of five mental operations of written…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Learning Strategies, Information Processing
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Coirier, Pierre; Favart, Monik; Chanquoy, Lucile – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2002
The goal of this study was to analyze the development of the relationship between conceptual and linguistic processes as regards idea ordering and structuring (linearizing), when composing a text. Participants (from 7th graders to University students) were required to compose a text using a list of eleven scrambled ideas. Conceptual rules allow to…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Linguistics, Models, Cluster Grouping
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Nanavati, Anuj A.; Bias, Randolph G. – Visible Language, 2005
One of the most important, and most studied, aspects of human perception is the act of reading. Reading has received much attention from researchers, both from a human information processing (HIP) approach and as a common, practical act that needs to be optimized, especially in the realm of human-computer interaction (HCI). One of the text …
Descriptors: Psychologists, Human Body, Reading Rate, Readability
Pomeroy, Robert W. – 1995
Designed to be a "road map," this guide introduces an approach to producing "electronic reports," documents that fuse computer-based methods with traditional research techniques. The guide emphasizes four stages--planning, inquiry, analysis, and expression. The chapter on planning discusses defining objectives, flowcharting,…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Data Processing, Editing, Electronic Publishing
Ipek, Ismail – 1995
This paper examines variations of text density levels for learning in a computer-based instruction (CBI) tutorial from an integrated perspective, and addresses the following questions: (1) What is the text density? (2) What are the relationships among text density approaches? and (3) What are the contributions of text density for learning and how…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Graphic Arts
Bonitatibus, Gary; Beal, Carole R. – 1992
Four studies investigated when children became able to detect that the words of a story could support multiple interpretations. Each subject saw two eight-sentence stories of each of four types (no-cause, unbiased, biased-proximal, and biased-distal), designed to support multiple interpretations. After reading or hearing each story, the children…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students, Grade 2
Whalley, Peter – 1990
This paper examines some of the theoretical and practical problems associated with the use of hypertext as a medium for teaching, and explores the positive role that it may be able to play in teaching materials. Hypertext is conventionally described as non-linear, and this aspect of non-linearity is interpreted as endowing it with many attractive…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Foreign Countries, Hypermedia
Tuman, Myron C. – 1992
Elaborating on Emile Durkheim's claim that major debates about pedagogy are always an indicator of underlying social change, this book charts the enormous impact computers are having on how people read and write, how reading and writing are taught, and how literacy is defined. The larger concern of the book is how technology generally affects not…
Descriptors: Computers, Critical Reading, Definitions, Hypermedia
Tuman, Myron C., Ed – 1992
Revealing something of the vast changes in intellectual life that are likely to follow the rapid expansion in the power and availability of computers, the essays in this book represent a serious effort to redefine the parameters of literacy debates of the 1980s. Discussions at the end of each of the five sections of the book represent an attempt…
Descriptors: Censorship, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers, Critical Reading
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