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Snow, David P.; And Others – 1982
One hundred twenty-three fifth grade students participated in a study that investigated the role of prosodic cues in children's comprehension of discourse. The subjects, both good and poor readers, read, listened to, or read and listened to a story in one of four modes of visual and auditory presentation: (1) no audio, (2) normally intoned, (3)…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cognitive Processes, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Holzman, Thomas G.; Payne, M. Carr, Jr. – 1983
A study investigated connections between reading difficulties and short term memory processes in order to explore the psychological basis for some individual differences in reading comprehension skills. Drawing on previous research indicating that poor readers were inferior to normal ones in judging whether two patterns of long and short tones…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes