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Christopherson, Steven L. – 1974
Sixty undergraduate students read and summarized eight short passages in a study of how semantic components were involved in text comprehension. After the first summary was completed (the naive or untutored summary), the students were assigned to one of three groups. The experimental group was introduced to the semantic components, including…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Deep Structure, Discourse Analysis, Reading Comprehension
