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How Many Words are There in Printed School English
THE PURPOSE of this research was to determine the number of distinct words in printed school English. A detailed analysis was done of a 7,260 word sample from the Carroll, Davies and Richman, Word…
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Becoming a Nation of Readers: The Report of the Commission on Reading
A Schema-Theoretic View of Basic Processes in Reading Comprehension. Technical Report No. 306.
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The issue of how the reader's schemata or knowledge already stored in memory, function in the process of interpreting new information and allowing it to enter and become a part of the knowledge store is focused on.
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The notion of schemata and the educational enterprise
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Morphological Awareness and Learning to Read: A Cross-Language Perspective
In the past decade, there has been a surge of interest in morphological awareness, which refers to the ability to reflect on and manipulate morphemes and word formation rules in a language. This…
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Schooling and students′ epistemological beliefs about learning
Abstract This study examined university students′ epistemological beliefs as a function of their educational level and field of study. A stratified random sampling technique was used to assess the…
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Growth in Reading and How Children Spend Their Time Outside of School
Few studies have provided precise data on how much reading school children do. Fewer still have examined the relation between amount of reading and reading achievement. In the studies reported here,…
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Learning Word Meanings From Context During Normal Reading
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Students in third, fifth, and seventh grades read either expository or narrative passages selected from grade-level textbooks, and after six days were tested on their knowledge of difficult words from the passages, and effects of word and text properties on learning from context were examined.
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Learning Words from Context.
SCHOOL CHILDREN appear to increase their vocabularies by thousands of words per year. Many have hypothesized that a large proportion of this growth occurs through incidental learning from written…
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Properties of school Chinese: implications for learning to read.
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The properties of the 2,570 Chinese characters explicitly taught in Chinese elementary schools were systematically investigated and suggest that written Chinese has a logic that children can understand and use.
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