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Peer reviewedWisher, Robert A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1976
When college students were required to remember a sequence of numbers before reading a sentence displayed at a constant rate and the syntactic structure was known beforehand, their recall of the number sequence was superior. When subjects were timed while reading individual sentences and syntactic structure was known beforehand, reading times…
Descriptors: College Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Rate, Retention (Psychology)
Wisher, Robert A. – 1977
This paper discusses a study designed to evaluate the use of semantic and syntactic expectations in reading. Sixteen college-student subjects, measured for reading proficiency by the Nelson-Denny Reading Test, were divided equally into a fast-reading group (350-450 words per minute) and an average-speed reading group (200-275 words per minute).…
Descriptors: College Students, Connected Discourse, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading)
