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Download full textSchwantes, Frederick M. – 1983
Two experiments investigated the effects of preceding sentence context on the naming times of sentence completion words in third-grade children and college students. In the first study subjects were shown incomplete sentences with four types of target words: best completions; semantically and syntactically appropriate, but less likely completions;…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Associative Learning, Attention, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedArden-Close, Christopher – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1993
Compares strategies used to infer the meanings of unknown words by three NNS readers--a good reader, an average reader, and a poor reader--from a series of six readings. The good reader uses a wider range of strategies than the weaker ones; all readers "read in" meanings from their own specialized subject (in this case chemistry). (15…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Case Studies, College Students, Comparative Analysis
