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Kehoe, William J. – 1976
Word-recognition behavior of 50 high school students two or more grade levels below their age mates in tests of reading comprehension was contrasted with that of 25 controls from the same schools, who were reading at grade level. The experiment included a section in which pictures (flashed, like the words, at 1/100 of a second) were to be…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Error Analysis (Language), Failure, Linguistics
Mann, William – 1990
This paper reports on an experiment designed to determine whether a novice second-language (L2) reader can be characterized as concept-oriented or syntactic-structure oriented. The operating premise was that high school L2 students read and understand not so much by translating as by combining conceptual fragments into a tentative "script," which…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Error Analysis (Language)
