ERIC Number: ED155684
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Publication Date: 1978
Pages: 11
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Reading, Comprehension, and Memory Processes: Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations Published in "Dissertation Abstracts International," July through September 1977 (Vol. 38 Nos. 1 through 3).
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL.
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 14 titles deal with the following topics: children's ability to read their own dictated oral language; adjunct structure and reading comprehension; learning and comprehension of simultaneously presented stimuli in children of superior intelligence; literal comprehension as an aspect of total comprehension; the effects of advance and nonorganizers in the learning of verbal materials; the effect of silent and oral reading on comprehension and oral reading miscues; effects of learning instructions and age on information acquired from prose; adult age differences in sentence memory; the effects of restructuring grammatical patterns on comprehension; the effects of expectation modification on reading comprehension; the effects of spatial organization of text on content recall; relationships between semantic and stylistic aspects of language and comprehension of discourse written for children; influences upon learning rate in first grade children exposed to several stressors; and the effects of lexically ambiguous nouns embedded in a reading task for children. (GW)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Adults, Advance Organizers, Age Differences, Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Secondary Education, Expectation, Language Patterns, Learning Processes, Memory, Miscue Analysis, Oral Reading, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Sentence Structure, Silent Reading, Stress Variables
Publication Type: Reference Materials - Bibliographies
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Authoring Institution: ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL.
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