Text comprehension and learning from text

✍ Scribed by Hout Wolters, Bernadette H. A. M. van; Schnotz, Wolfgang

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 210
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book deals with the significance of different text structures and its cognitive processing in learning from texts. It discusses the effect of learning abilities and attitudes for learning from texts, and focuses on the significance of processing and learning strategies for text comprehension.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 8
Chapter 1: Bernadette Van Hout-Wolters and Wolfgang Schnotz Text comprehension and learning from text: An introduction......Page 10
Part I: Text Structures......Page 18
Chapter 2: Joachim Grabowski Expository text and propositional text processing......Page 20
Chapter 3: Eduardo Vidal-Abarca Important information in expository prose: The role of awareness of textual structure and of the skill in ranking ideas in a text......Page 36
Chapter 4: Ala Samarapungavan and Jos Beishuizen Hypermedia and knowledge acquisition from non-linear expository text......Page 54
Chapter 5: Pietro Boscolo, Lerida Cisotto and Albina Lucca Text comprehension and typographical features of elementary school text books......Page 72
Chapter 6: Egbert Woudstra and Cees Terlouw A procedure for the design of illustrated texts......Page 86
Part II: Learner Abilities and Attitudes......Page 106
Chapter 7: Rachel Rimmershaw Pragmatic knowledge in expository text comprehension: A recall study with young readers......Page 108
Chapter 8: Christiane Spiel Comprehension of story content in adolescents: Influences of age and cognitive competence......Page 126
Chapter 9: Huub van den Bergh and Gert Rijlaarsdam Affect, reading behaviour and reading achievement......Page 138
Part III: Processing and Learning Strategies......Page 152
Chapter 10: Lucia Lumbelli Uncertainty in text comprehension: Clues and effects......Page 154
Chapter 11: Anna Aventissian-Pagoropoulou The development and the usage of some particular cognitive strategies concerning text processing in physics and in history......Page 170
Chapter 12: Juan García Madruga, Jesus Martin Cordero, Juan Luque and Carlos Santamaria Teaching active text processing strategies: Some experimental results......Page 184
Chapter 13: Ottavia Albanese and Carla Antoniotti The influence of an educator’s interactive style on the process of comprehension in preschool-age children......Page 202

✦ Subjects

Learning, Psychology of;Electronic books