Children's Use of Context in Word Recognition: A Psycholinguistic Guessing Game.

Schwantes, Frederick M.; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ234777

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Publication Date: 1980-Sep

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Children's Use of Context in Word Recognition: A Psycholinguistic Guessing Game.

Schwantes, Frederick M.; And Others

Child Development, v51 n3 p730-36 Sep 1980

Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of varying the amount of preceding-sentence context upon the lexical decision speed of third- and sixth-grade and college-level students. (Author/MP)

Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Context Clues, Elementary School Students, Reading Achievement, Word Recognition

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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