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Autor/inn/en | Cain, Kate; Nash, Hannah M. |
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Titel | The Influence of Connectives on Young Readers' Processing and Comprehension of Text |
Quelle | In: Journal of Educational Psychology, 103 (2011) 2, S.429-441 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0022-0663 |
DOI | 10.1037/a0022824 |
Schlagwörter | Reading Comprehension; Sentences; Word Processing; Educational Psychology; Reader Text Relationship; Task Analysis; Children; Adults; Comparative Analysis |
Abstract | Connectives are cohesive devices that signal the relations between clauses and are critical to the construction of a coherent representation of a text's meaning. The authors investigated young readers' knowledge, processing, and comprehension of temporal, causal, and adversative connectives using offline and online tasks. In a cloze task, 10-year-olds were more accurate than 8-year-olds on temporal and adversative connectives, but both age groups differed from adult levels of performance (Experiment 1). When required to rate the "sense" of 2-clause sentences linked by connectives, 10-year-olds and adults were better at discriminating between clauses linked by appropriate and inappropriate connectives than were 8-year-olds. The 10-year-olds differed from adults only on the temporal connectives (Experiment 2). In contrast, online reading time measures indicated that 8-year-olds' processing of text is influenced by connectives as they read, in much the same way as 10-year-olds'. Both age groups read text more quickly when target 2-clause sentences were linked by an appropriate connective compared with texts in which a connective was neutral (and), inappropriate to the meaning conveyed by the 2 clauses, or not present (Experiments 3 and 4). These findings indicate that although knowledge and comprehension of connectives is still developing in young readers, connectives aid text processing in typically developing readers. (Contains 4 tables and 3 figures.) (As Provided). |
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Update | 2017/4/10 |