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Peer reviewedJohnson, Ronald E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1974
The patterning of recall of linguistic subunits was found to be strongly related to the semantic dimensions of abstractness-concreteness, specificity of denotation, comprehensibility, and interest. (Author/BJG)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Higher Education
Peer reviewedGagne, Ellen D.; Rothkopf, Ernst Z. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1975
Examines the effect of scattering in the instructional text various information elements for a given learning goal and if the retention of that goal relevant element is affected by the presence of elements that cannot be found in the text. (Author/DEP)
Descriptors: Course Objectives, High School Students, Learning, Prose
Peer reviewedMasciandaro, Franco – Italica, 1969
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Biographies, Fifteenth Century Literature, Italian Literature
Peer reviewedRodriquez-Peralta, Phyllis – Hispania, 1969
Descriptors: Hispanic American Literature, Historical Criticism, Latin American Culture, Modernism
Kuhn, Reinhard – French Rev, 1969
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Christianity, French Literature, Philosophy
Choppin, Bruce H. – Int Rev Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Essay Tests, International Education, Literature Appreciation
Kane, Tony – 1980
This unit will introduce secondary level students to Chinese literature. The first part of the unit discusses poetry which has always been the most highly prized form of Chinese literature. The discussion examines the "Complete Tang Poems," the "Book of Songs" compiled by Confucius, the "Songs of Chu," and the "Li Sao." Students learn about the…
Descriptors: Asian Studies, Bibliographies, Chinese Culture, Literature
FRANCIS, W.N. – 1964
A LARGE BODY OF EDITED PRESENT-DAY AMERICAN ENGLISH, FROM A RANDOM SAMPLE OF MATERIAL PUBLISHED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 1961, WAS PREPARED IN A FORMAT BY WHICH IT CAN BE TRANSFERRED TO MAGNETIC TAPE FOR USE IN DIGITAL DATA-PROCESSING EQUIPMENT. FIVE HUNDRED SAMPLES, OF 2,000 WORDS EACH, OF INFORMATIVE AND IMAGINATIVE PROSE WERE CHOSEN, EXCLUDING…
Descriptors: Digital Computers, English, Information Processing, Information Retrieval
Download full textPearson, Gregory – 1977
A propositional network system for representing the logical and semantic information contained in a text is described. The reliability of scoring information recalled from reading, using this representational system, is found to vary with the scoring goal. Determination of the amount of information recalled is found to be extremely reliable. A…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Learning Processes, Logic, Memory
Morse, J. Mitchell – College English, 1968
Good writing is discussed in terms of absolute literary values--"what is good writing" rather than "what is considered good writing." Major emphasis is focused on judging the quality of a literary work by its artistic merit instead of its political, social, or philosophical relevance. Examples of good and bad writing styles are cited throughout…
Descriptors: English, English Instruction, Language Styles, Literary Discrimination
Potts, George R. – 1975
The present series of experiments was designed to examine the factors affecting the ability of people to draw inferences from a passage of text. It was found that, using a true-false recognition test, proportion correct was higher and reaction time shorter on inferred information than on information that was actually presented. This was the case…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Processes, Memory, Prose
Wadley, Susan S., Ed. – Journal of South Asian Literature, 1975
The collection of articles in this volume focuses on different kinds of folk literature from Bengal, Tamilnad, Bihar, Hindi-speaking North India, and Nepal. An introductory article by S.S. Wadley discusses types of folk literature in Karimpur. The remaining articles are organized according to cultural themes: "The Lustful Stepmother in the…
Descriptors: Asian Studies, Drama, Folk Culture, Legends
Meyer, Bonnie J. F. – 1973
The question of how people learn and remember information from complex written materials is explored by means of Grime's semantic grammar of propositions and the author's analysis of the content structure of prose. This paper, presented at the 1973 Interdisciplinary Meeting on Structural Learning, first discusses such elements of the semantic…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Analysis, Learning Processes, Memory
Meyer, Bonnie J. F.; McConkie, George W. – 1972
In order to determine what aspects of information from prose are available for recall after one presentation of a passage and what aspects are learned with additional presentations, two passages were divided into idea units. These units were placed in a logical hierarchical structure for each passage, and scores were assigned to the idea units on…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Cognitive Processes, College Students, Conceptual Schemes
Rubin, Ann D.; And Others – 1976
Language comprehension is an immensely complex process involving the dynamic interaction of diverse sources of knowledge. In order to model this process, tools are needed which allow detailed specification of the process components. In this paper, the essential characteristics of a model of reading comprehension are discussed in the context of the…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computers, Models, Prose
