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Peer reviewedMejia Valera, Manuel – Cuadernos Americanos, 1973
Descriptors: Fiction, Hispanic American Literature, Latin American Literature, Literary Criticism
Peer reviewedMeyer, Bonnie J. F.; McConkie, George W. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1973
This study has demonstrated the feasibility of extracting from passages of expository text a structure that reveals an important aspect of the logical interrelations among the ideas expressed in the passage. (Author)
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Association (Psychology), College Students, Concept Formation
Garrison, Joseph M., Jr. – Coll Engl, 1970
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Christianity, Literary Styles, Poetry
Peer reviewedBelgardt, Raimund – Unterrichtspraxis, 1971
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Characterization, German Literature, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedSolis, Ramon – Revista de Occidente, 1971
Discusses the importance and influence of Cadiz, a town in Southern Spain, on nineteenth century Spanish Romanticism. (DS)
Descriptors: Authors, Essays, Foreign Language Periodicals, Local Color Writing
Turner, Darwin T. – Coll Engl, 1970
Descriptors: Black History, Black Literature, Black Studies, Blacks
Campos, Carlos Martinez de – Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, 1970
Descriptors: American Indians, Biographies, Cultural Context, Hispanic American Literature
Hytier, Jean – French Rev, 1970
Presents contrasting views of some French literary critics including Georges Poulet, Charles Mauron, Jean-Pierre Richard, Jean-Paul Weber, and Roland Barthes. Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) December 28, 1968 in New York, New York. (DS)
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, French Literature, Literary Criticism, Literary Styles
Miller, J. Hillis – Stud Engl Lit, 1970
Part I of this review appeared in the Fall 1969 issue. The concluding part discusses some fifty volumes on Victorian literature received between September 1968 and September 1969. (DS)
Descriptors: Book Reviews, English Literature, Letters (Correspondence), Literary Criticism
Laguerre, Enrique A. – Educ (Puerto Rico), 1969
Descriptors: Hispanic American Literature, Latin American Culture, Local Color Writing, Novels
Peer reviewedBrooks, Larry W.; And Others – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1983
The effectiveness of having 51 students generate their own headings for scientific text is assessed. Results reveal that generating headings enhances performance on a number of recall measures compared to either author-provided headings or no headings. (Author)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Higher Education
Peer reviewedTaub, Harvey A.; And Others – Educational Gerontology, 1982
Evaluated effects of perceived choice upon comprehension and memory of prose reading passages. Compared choice and no choice conditions with young and elderly adults and only elderly groups. Results indicated both age- and vocabulary-related deficits. However, perceived choice conditions did not produce any consistent improvement in performance.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Memory
Peer reviewedGagne, Ellen D.; Britton, Bruce K. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1982
An experiment was conducted to examine how objectives influence organization of information recalled from text. Objectives were hypothesized to affect sequence of attention, rehearsal during a review period, and to serve as retrieval cues. Results indicated that organization by objectives occurs during rehearsal but not encoding or retrieval…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Experimental Groups, Higher Education, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedGrabe, Mark – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1981
Two experiments related inspection speed to text relevance. While specific goals or questions produced variable inspection speeds, a general purpose in reading did not. Text information related to reading goals was more likely to be retained. Results are explained in terms of storage demands imposed by each category of reading goal. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Higher Education, Prose, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedAndre, Thomas – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1981
College students read prose passages and answered either verbatim or paraphrased inserted questions while reading under review or no review conditions. On a posttest students who received paraphrased questions outperformed students who received verbatim questions. This result supported the contention that paraphrased adjunct questions could…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Memory
