Fourteen poor-reading college students were assigned to a dyslexia group or a nonspecific reading-disabled group based on intelligence quotient (IQ). The groups were compared to controls on cognitive and reading-related skills. Results showed that poor decoding skill characterized the dyslexic reader, whereas the nondyslexic poor reader displayed…

Two explanations for text summarization deficiencies among older learners were investigated. Results of the study confirmed deficiencies documented in the literature but with some specificity for source of the deficit and for age level. Specific instructional remedies are proposed. (Author/LMO)

This paper investigated the apparent failure of subjects to assess accurately their own reading comprehension. The results showed that readers who exhibited an illusion of knowing tended to have shown distortions in their passage summaries, whereas subjects who knew that they had failed to comprehend were more likely to have omitted information…

University of California writing instructors must teach poorly prepared freshmen how to survive English classes and how to adapt the skills they learn to the rest of their university writing assignments. Reading, thinking, organizing, and stylistic problems are discussed. (MLW)

Lists sources in various branches of linguistics from N. Chomsky's transformational grammar to the Soviet school represented by L. Vygotsky and A. Luria. (DF)

A communicative classroom procedure designed to give students initial practice in deriving notes and summaries from a written text is described. Using various kinds of classroom interaction, the procedure allows practice in recognition, production, and evaluation of paragraph summaries in note form. A piece of text used with adult and college…

Surveyed college representatives from 100 companies (56 percent response rate) to determine relative importance of communication skills (writing, listening, speaking, reading) to practicing engineers and of individual skills within each of these four areas for on-the-job performance. Listening/speaking skills were rated as most important, followed…

Two types of questions were inserted in reading material either before or after certain text segments to see how they affected learning. (MM)

The Davis Reading Test was used to appraise the comprehension level and speed of over 95 percent of the freshman medical students entering the University of Maryland in 1962, 1963, and 1964. Results suggest that the DRT scores are not precise indicators of academic performance, but may be useful in screening for students deficient in study skills.…

This paper reviews literature in the past 60 years about the relationship between music experience and language reading. Results of the literature review fall into three categories: the first group of studies (group I) indicates that music experience benefits language reading due to six transfers of learning--prediction skill, whole-to-part…

Colleges must devise procedures, says the author, to help under-prepared students, who have been newly admitted, to overcome their deficiencies in academic skills. (Author/RK)

Reports on a study that focused on the retrieval strategies and effort allocation at the time of retrieval and adult subjects' corresponding satisfaction with task performance in the presence or absence of a specified criterion. (HOD)

Presents a discussion of experimental-research paper organization and a method for teaching reading and writing of papers to ESL students. (EKN)

Describes the problems facing developmental reading instruction in Nigeria, their causes, and possible solutions. (AEA)

Describes a college biology course designed to provide science majors with a learning experience that will improve their ability to comprehend, discuss and describe scientific findings. The organization, requirements and evaluation of the course are also included. (HM)