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Peer reviewedSeidlhofer, Barbara – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1990
Draws a distinction between two kinds of summarization involved in discourse comprehension: abbreviated versions and brief accounts. English summaries written by Austrian university students are used to illustrate the different degrees of contextualization, or schematic priming, that influenced the amount of processing the students performed on…
Descriptors: College Students, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Direct linkKorner, Christof – Learning and Instruction, 2005
Hierarchical graphs represent relationships between objects (like computer file systems, family trees etc.). Graph nodes represent the objects and interconnecting lines represent the relationships. In two experiments we investigated what concepts are necessary for understanding hierarchical graphs, what misconceptions evolve when some of the…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Misconceptions, Graphs, Concept Formation
