Theoretical Issues in Reading Comprehension

Download or read book Theoretical Issues in Reading Comprehension written by Rand J. Spiro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1980 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Failures to comprehend and levels of processing in reading / Marilyn Jager Adams--Schemata : the building blocks of cognition / David E. Rumelhart--multiple theory formation in speech and reading / William A. Woods--Syntactic aspects of reading comprehension / A.W.F. Huggins and Marilyn Jager Adams--Pragmatics and reading comprehension / Jerry L. Morgan and Georgia M. Green--Syntax beyond the sentence : anaphora / Bonnie Lynn Webber--Discourse and linguistic theory / Jerry L. Morgan and Manfred B. Sellner--Psychological correlates of text structure / Ernest T. Goetz and Bonnie B. Armbruster--Literary theory, rhetoric, and stylistics : implications for psychology / William F. Brewer--Constructive processes in prose comprehension and recall / Rand J. Spiro--category structure and the development of categorization / Carolyn B. Mervis--Theories of semantic memory : approaches to knowledge and sentence comprehension / Edward J. Shoben--The meaning of words in context / Richard C. Anderson and Zohara Shifrin--Metaphor / Andrew Ortony--Plans and social actions / Bertram C. Bruce--Interference in text understanding / Allan Collins, John Seely Brown, and Kathy M. Larkin--A theoretical taxonomy of the differences between oral and written language / Andee Rubin--On the dialect question and reading / William S. Hall and Larry F. Guthrie--Metacognitive development and reading / Ann L. Brown--Study strategies and adjunct aids / Thomas H. Anderson--The role of illustrations in reading comprehension / Diane Lemmonnier Schallert--Topic interest and children's reading comprehension / Steven R. Asher--Skill hierarchies in reading comprehension / Barak V. Rosenshine--Teaching reading comprehension in the middle grades / Joseph R. Jenkins and Darlene Pany.