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Peer reviewedBernicot, Josie; Legros, Suzanne – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1987
Results indicate that (1) comprehension of direct and indirect directives improves between the ages of three and six; (2) comprehension of direct directives appears to occur earlier and with greater ease than comprehension of indirect directives; and (3) context, or social situation, plays an important role in the comprehension of direct and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Foreign Countries, Social Environment
Peer reviewedEhrlich, Marie-France; Tardieu, Hubert – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1991
Discusses a study of fast and slow adult readers' textual organization subprocesses. Reveals that title and text type variables were manipulated in the study. Concludes that fast and slow readers processed textual organization similarly and showed identical comprehension performances. Calls for research into the characteristics of good…
Descriptors: Adults, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Reading Comprehension
Perdue, Clive, Ed. – 1984
The field manual for a series of coordinated studies of the spontaneous acquisition of a second language by adult immigrant workers provides a theoretical and practical framework for the entire project and a source of information about it for other researchers. Chapters 1 and 2 describe the project's objectives and organization. Chapter 3 reviews…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Comprehension, Data Collection, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedCauzinille-Marmeche, Evelyne; And Others – Science Education, 1985
Investigated the role of "a priori" ideas in planning experiments and data processing leading to inferences. Thirty-one students (ages 11-13) observed a "combustion/candle in a closed container" experiment and were asked to interpret sets of measurements. Findings, among others, show that children preferentially experiment on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Comprehension, Elementary Education
