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Hopper, Robert – 1972
This study was designed to explore the influences of visual context upon sentence comprehension in young children. Three-, four-, five-, and six-year-old children were presented with various linguistic tasks under varied visual context constraints. Four context conditions--no visual context, a helpful pictured context, a helpful visual context…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Comprehension, Context Clues, Language Instruction
Matz, Robert D.; Rohwer, William D., Jr. – 1971
The extent to which pictorial presentation would facilitate the comprehension of text-like passages among two populations of fourth-grade students was investigated. Subjects were 64 students each in high-socioeconomic status (SES) white and low-SES black groups. Simple passages amenable to pictorial presentation were read over a programed tape to…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Factor Analysis
El-Tigi, Manal A.; And Others – 1997
The way information is visually designed and synthesized greatly affects how people understand and use that information. Increased use of the World Wide Web as a teaching tool makes it imperative to question how visual/verbal information presented via the Web can increase or restrict understanding. The purpose of this study was to examine…
Descriptors: Color, Comprehension, Computer Graphics, Design Requirements