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Vosniadou, Stella; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1988
Two experiments studied whether 110 first, third, and fifth graders' difficulties in detecting inconsistencies in text were related to their failure to represent inconsistent propositions in memory or failure to compare them although remembered. Shortcomings were related more to difficulties in forming mental representations than in comparing…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Memory
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Melby, Alan – Computers and the Humanities, 1995
Emphasizes the importance of terminology in an age of machine-based translation systems. Discusses differences between lexicography and terminology. Concludes with an argument for a new system based on the Text Encoding Initiative-based notions of elements and attributes. (CFR)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Lexicography, Research Tools, Researchers
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Ide, Nancy – Computers and the Humanities, 1995
Describes problems in devising a Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) encoding format for dictionaries. Asserts that the high degree of structuring and compression of information are among the most complex text types treated in the TEI. Concludes that the source of some TEI problems lies in the design of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). (CFR)
Descriptors: Databases, Dictionaries, Higher Education, Lexicography
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Liles, Betty Z.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1995
Narratives from three studies were analyzed using seven variables hypothesized to measure a variety of language abilities used in narrative production. Results indicated that the variables represented global organization of content, and within- and across-sentence structure. Variables representing sentence structure were most effective as…
Descriptors: Children, Context Effect, Factor Analysis, Language Impairments
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Pellegrini, A. D.; And Others – Discourse Processes, 1995
Finds that children's word recall was best predicted by responsive maternal strategies, such as encouraging children to talk about the text, and children's modeling maternal strategies; also, word recall and vocabulary was significantly correlated with children's language generated around traditional format texts (trade books), not familiar format…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Preschool Children
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Mullikin, Colleen N.; And Others – Reading Psychology, 1992
Finds that low ability and average ability students benefit more from reading plays than reading stories. Finds that the performance of low ability readers equalled high ability readers when both participated in group oral readings of plays. (RS)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Drama, Junior High Schools, Reading Achievement
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Loxterman, Jane A.; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1994
Investigates effects of text coherence and active engagement on students' comprehension of textbook information. Finds a continuum of increased performance from original silent text, to original text with thinking aloud, to revised text read silently, and finally revised text with thinking aloud. (SR)
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Protocol Analysis
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Miller, Kathleen K.; George, John E. – Journal of Reading, 1992
Investigates the effectiveness of study guides (called Expository Passage Organizers) in improving sixth graders' reading and writing. Finds that such study guides, which highlighted the structures of textbooks, made a significant and positive difference in reading and writing performance. (SR)
Descriptors: Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Reading Improvement, Reading Research
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Agnihotri, R. K.; Khanna, A. L. – Journal of Reading, 1992
Shows how a number of readability measures developed in English were applied to a textbook written in Hindi. Emphasizes that the more recent approaches to readability that focus on syntax, conceptual difficulty, and organization are a teacher's best help in selecting materials for students. (SR)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Foreign Countries, Hindi, Readability
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Roussey, J. Y.; And Others – Language and Education, 1990
Studies revising strategies by examining the correction-sequencing procedures implemented by 48 elementary children and 48 adults. Finds three distinct groups of subjects: those who improved the text by using one of the model strategies, those who improved the text without using a model strategy, and those who failed to improve the text. (MG)
Descriptors: Adults, Elementary Education, Error Correction, Revision (Written Composition)
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Sadoski, Mark; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1993
The comprehensibility, interestingness, familiarity, and memorability of concrete and abstract instructional texts were studied in 4 experiments involving 221 college students. Results indicate that concreteness (ease of imagery) is the variable overwhelmingly most related to comprehensibility and recall. Dual coding theory and schema theory are…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Content Analysis, Encoding (Psychology), Familiarity
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Stahle, Debra L. – Reading Psychology, 1991
Studies second, fourth, and sixth grade students to answer four questions to determine whether comprehension of anaphora is a strong structural factor in children's personal composition as it is in reading comprehension. Concludes that students' reading and writing are correlated in the frequency and use of singular and plural pronouns. (MG)
Descriptors: Correlation, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
Dingmin, Wu – Guidelines, 1992
The reader's knowledge about how a message is woven into discourse plays an important role in reading comprehension. This article first reviews reasons for student difficulties in comprehension, sentence groups, and sense units and then presents a basic discourse framework and its applications for analyzing text passages. (Contains two…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Decoding (Reading), Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Amer, Aly A. – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1992
Story grammar is a recent area of research related to an interactive conceptualization of reading. A study of 70 sixth-grade students studying English as a foreign language (EFL) suggests that direct instruction in story grammar helps students abstract a story's episodic sequence and metastructure. Sample texts are appended. (Contains 21…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Grade 6
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Wenger, Michael J.; Spyridakis, Jan H. – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1993
Studies empirically the effects on reader performance of reduced text structure in technical writing texts. Reveals that removal of cues to local coherence produced reliable decrements in reader performance. Discusses results with regard to questions of information design. (HB)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reader Response, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
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