Children's Inferential Comprehension of Pragmatic Causal Relations in Reading [microform] / Argiro Louchis Morgan
- Bib ID:
- 5395736
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Morgan, Argiro Louchis
- Description:
-
- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1981
- 58 p.
- Summary:
-
A study investigated the separate and combined effects of the syntactic organization of the sentence, the contextual framework in which a message is embedded, and the readers' past experiences on children's inferential reading comprehension of pragmatic cause/effect statements. The subjects, 144 fourth grade students, were asked to specify the implied event frames of target stimuli that varied in semantic difficulty, contextual presentations, and syntactic form. Results showed that without controls over short term memory, the majority of students responded correctly to literal questions. More correct responses were given to questions based upon the frequent experiences of children than to questions based upon their less frequent experiences. The data also indicated that fourth grade middle-class children of average or above average reading ability were quite successful in retaining and repeating upon questioning a surface repetition of a deleted syntactic form regardless of whether the causal relationship was stated explicitly or implicitly. The findings suggest that if target information is presented in isolation rather than embedded in text, literal recall is enhanced. (Materials used in the study are appended.) (FL)
- Notes:
-
- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Los Angeles, CA, April 13-17, 1981).
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
- Genre/Form:
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
-
In Copyright
You may copy under some circumstances, for example you may copy a portion for research or study. Order a copy through Copies Direct to the extent allowed under fair dealing. Contact us for further information about copying.
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1981
Copyright status may not be correct if data in the record is incomplete or inaccurate. Other access conditions may also apply. For more information please see: Copyright in library collections.
Request this item
Request this item to view in the Library’s reading room.
Feedback
Similar items
- Developing and validating assessments of inference ability in reading comprehension [microform] / Linda M. Phillips
- Idea-mapping [microform] : the technique and its use in the classroom or simulating the "ups" and "downs" of reading comprehension / Bonnie B. Armbruster and Thomas H. Anderson
- Learning from text [microform] / Robert J. Tierney
- Australian story sampler. Book 8, From Norman B. Tindale and H.A. Lindsay's The first walkabout / [compiled by] Peter Howard and Wayne Levy
- Pre-passage questions: [microform] the influence of structural importance / Stephen C. Wilhite