This study sought to develop a method for describing readers' perceptions of the topical organization of prose and to specify text features that determine perception of organization. A hierarchical clustering analysis was applied to high-school and college readers' judgments of the topical relatedness of sentences in two prose passages. This…

This study proposed to determine the relative value of two specific techniques of instruction in the social studies, reading and listening, when the factors of varying levels of intelligence and reading ability, and sex were considered. (Author)

The study found that intonation or melody pattern contributes to reading comprehension ability. (JH)

Faculty Seminar in Reading Theory at Temple University of Education, Philadelphia May 8 and 9 1968

Reading teachers of the 1980s need to be confident not only about the key issues but also about their own knowledge of the issues when making decisions. Two issues from the seventies (reading as a developmental process and reading as a psycholinguistic process) combine with the broad notion of textlinguistics as important areas of knowledge for…

The process of studying text material is a criteria-related, self-directed form of reading involving three phases: prereading, reading, and postreading. Prereading consists of clarifying the criteria for study, constructing a study guide, and surveying the text to determine how much is already known, how interesting it is, and how difficult or…

This paper argues that assessments of the correlation between emotional problems and reading have been, for the most part, products of particular historical periods and have been influenced by particular psychological theories--theories that also influenced education and counseling. The paper first traces the history of research investigations…

Eye movement monitoring is useful both in the control of experiments on reading and as a source of data. Experiments using eye monitoring techniques have helped develop the following conclusions about the reading process: the region of text read during a fixation is quite small and asymmetric to the right of the center of vision, successive…

THIS INVESTIGATION STUDIED THE EFFECTS AND INTERACTION OF SELECTED PRACTICE, TASK, AND SUBJECT VARIABLES ON LEARNING PERFORMANCE. SUBJECTS SELECTED WERE RETARDED, NORMAL, AND SUPERIOR CAUCASIAN PUPILS. EACH WAS ADMINISTERED EIGHT TASKS FORMED BY COMBINING THE TASK MEANINGFULNESS AND RECITATION TYPE VARIANTS. THESE TASKS WERE ADMINISTERED IN…

ONE MEASURE CURRENTLY USED TO DESCRIBE THE READING PROCESSES IS THE EYE-VOICE SPAN OR EVS. THE EVS IS DEFINED AS THE DISTANCE OR SPAN OF WORDS THAT THE EYE IS AHEAD OF THE VOICE IN ORAL READING. THE EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT INSTRUCTIONALLY-INDUCED SETS UPON THE EYE-VOICE SPANS OF READERS AT VARIOUS ELEMENTARY AND HIGH SCHOOL LEVELS WERE INVESTIGATED.…

Results from studies of language identification in noise and of word identification from tachistoscopic presentation clearly indicate that contextual information can be used to facilitate word identification under inadequate stimulus conditions. But these results do not provide strong evidence that such an interaction is occurring during normal…

A pilot study investigated the quality of diagnostic decisions that are made on the basis of a precise model of reading and learning to read. The study was carried out by creating a computer simulated reading clinician that embodied a recent model of the reading process and by observing the behavior of this simulated clinician as it diagnosed…

Forty adults served as subjects in a study of the comprehensibility of instructions conditioned by multicategory compounds, such as "If you are male, or both married and not employed, go to question 3." The stimulus materials were 96 sentence frames of the form, "If you are X, press (button) Y," in which "X" was…

This paper is intended to serve as an introduction to text analysis as a research tool and vehicle for improving instruction. In terms of perspective, two major theses are maintained throughout the paper: text analysis should be used within the context of understanding that a multiplicity of variables can influence reader/text interactions, and…