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Omaggio, Alice C. – 1979
In order to determine the effect of certain types of pictures on reading comprehension in beginning French, a study was conducted in which six types of pictorial contexts were used as advanced organizers for a test passage. One group of university students was given a text in French, a second group the same text in English, and a third group a set…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, French, Illustrations, Language Processing
Page, William D. – 1979
The comprehending score is a theoretically derived measure of language processing that identifies those miscues that indicate that the reader is making sense of the printed language he or she is attempting to read. A study was undertaken to explore the relationships between post oral reading cloze test scores and seven theoretically constructed…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education, Language Processing, Miscue Analysis
Davidson, Jane L.; Triplett, DeWayne – 1979
A procedure called the Group Mapping Activity has been used to provide for dynamic interaction of students through discussion after reading and to gauge the extent of readers' interactions with text. In using the procedure, however, it was discovered that some students regularly shifted the protagonists in their mapping. A study was undertaken to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Group Activities, Higher Education, Learning Theories
Murphy, Mary Theresa – 1979
Anaphora, a linguistic structure that refers to previously mentioned or implied text, has been implicated as a possible cause of reading comprehension difficulty among children. Reading research has focused on the surface structures of anaphora (pronouns and noun demonstratives, for example) and has viewed comprehension of anaphora as a language…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Williams, Linda K. – 1979
The progress and problems of five Spanish-speaking fourth graders who have learned to read only in English are traced. An attempt is made to ascertain the relationship between oral fluency in Spanish and English and reading ability in English, the effects of dialect-based miscues on reading comprehension, and the types of reading strategies these…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Language Research
Download full textDefense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1972
This 10-unit volume dealing with historical events in Indonesia is used in the advanced phase of the Indonesian Basic Course for United States military personnel. The objectives of the course are: (1) to relate the significant history of the area, (2) to expand the student's vocabulary, and (3) to develop the student's linguistic skills. The ten…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, History Instruction, Indonesian, Intensive Language Courses
HARRIS, THEODORE L.; AND OTHERS – 1965
METHODS OF TESTING, EVALUATING, AND TEACHING READING IN THE FOURTH, FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADES ARE DESCRIBED. CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTAL TESTS OF VARIABILITY IN READING SPEED ARE DISCUSSED. DESIGN WAS BASED ON THE RATIONALE THAT A MEANINGFUL READING-TIME SCORE DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE SUBJECT'S PURPOSE FOR READING. WHILE READING SPEED MAY…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Intermediate Grades, Psychometrics, Psychomotor Skills
OTTO, WAYNE; AND OTHERS – 1967
A PROTOTYPIC GUIDE TO READING SKILL DEVELOPMENT IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOCUSES ON THE COGNITIVE SKILLS THAT INFLUENCE ACHIEVEMENT IN READING. THE GUIDE PROVIDES EXPLICIT STATEMENTS OF THE FOLLOWING SKILLS -- WORD RECOGNITION, COMPREHENSION, STUDY SKILLS, SELF-DIRECTED READING, INTERPRETIVE READING, AND CREATIVE READING--AND A SPECIFIC FRAMEWORK…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Reading, Elementary Education, Independent Reading
RODGERS, THEODORE S. – 1967
SOME VIEWS ON THE ROLE OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE IN THE DESIGN OF READING MATERIALS AND THE TEACHING OF PRIMARY READING ARE CONTRASTED. FOUR AREAS OF LINGUISTIC STUDY RELEVANT TO READING ARE EXAMINED BRIEFLY--(1) THE STRUCTURE OF THE SPEECH SYSTEM, (2) THE STRUCTURE OF THE GRAPHIC SYSTEM, (3) THE RELATIONSHIP OF GRAPHOLOGY TO PHONOLOGY, AND (4) THE…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Individual Differences, Linguistics, Primary Education
LOWE, A. J. – 1966
THIS PAPER PRESENTS FINDINGS BASED UPON APPROXIMATELY 50 PUBLISHED SURVEYS OF COLLEGE READING PROGRAMS SINCE 1921. PROGRAMS VARIED FROM INDIVIDUAL, INCIDENTAL HELP TO COMPREHENSIVE COURSES IN READING IMPROVEMENT. NO SET PATTERNS ARE NOTED FOR LENGTH OF TRAINING, COST, OR AMOUNT OF CREDIT GIVEN. PROGRAMS PRIOR TO 1940 STRESSED STUDY HABITS,…
Descriptors: Colleges, Counseling, Educational Media, Instructional Materials
Woodford, Protase E. – 1980
The Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) is a multiple-choice test of English for non-native speakers of English. It consists of two sections: listening comprehension and reading. There are 100 questions in each section. Separate scaled scores are provided for each section, the part score scales ranging from five to 495 and the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Item Analysis, Language Tests
Palmer, John C.; And Others – 1979
A large stratified sample of university undergraduate students differing in reading ability performed a diverse set of psychometric and information processing tasks in a study exploring the role of visual information processing skill as a component in reading ability. Using a correlation analysis of individual differences, the interrelationships…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Higher Education
Mavrogenes, Nancy A.; Galen, Nancy D. – 1980
The difference model of reading disability was used to generate three research hypotheses for testing the relationship between language development (syntactic maturity) and reading achievement at the secondary school level. This model assumes that reading difficulties are attributable to differences or mismatches between the reader's response…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
Duran, Richard P. – 1979
Two hundred nine Puerto Rican students in East Coast colleges, from mixed bilingual backgrounds, were administered four matched pairs of deductive reasoning tests in Spanish and English. Measures of reading comprehension in these two languages were also collected. Results indicated that performance on logical reasoning tests in each language can…
Descriptors: Adults, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, College Students
Snow, David – 1980
This report examines taxonomies of reading comprehension subskills in light of a process-oriented model of text comprehension. Part One presents an outline of reading comprehension subskills in the context of a simple conceptual framework, summarizes the conclusions of several reading specialists and researchers as to what comprehension consists…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Classroom Research, Concept Formation, Educational Practices
