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ERIC Number: ED155684
Record Type: Non-Journal
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)
Publication Type: Reference Materials - Bibliographies
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Authoring Institution: ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL.
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