Understanding Chinese Prose: Effects of Number of Ideas, Metaphor, and Advance Organizer on Comprehension.

Siu, Ping Kee

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Publication Date: 1986

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Understanding Chinese Prose: Effects of Number of Ideas, Metaphor, and Advance Organizer on Comprehension.

Siu, Ping Kee

Journal of Educational Psychology, v78 n6 p417-23 Dec 1986

This study examined the degree to which student performance in constructing macrostructures in Chinese prose is affected by three text features: number of ideas, metaphoric expressions and advance organizer. Results showed that fewer ideas facilitated macroprocessing, metaphors did not influence idea organization, and advance organizer resulted in distracting effects. (JAZ)

Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Analysis of Variance, Chinese, Foreign Countries, Grade 10, Grade 7, Inferences, Language Processing, Learning Processes, Metaphors, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Secondary Education

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Hong Kong

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