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Peer reviewedHyona, Jukka – Reading Research Quarterly, 1994
Investigates the phenomenon of topic shift (sentences initiating a new topic are given additional processing time by skilled readers). Finds adults showed a proportionately greater effect than fifth graders when more difficult expository texts were used but not with easy narratives. Finds that paragraph marking did not influence the processing of…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
