| Autor: |
Mills, Carol Bergfeld, Diehl, Virginia A., Birkmire, Deborah P., Lien-Chong Mou |
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Discourse Processes; Jul/Aug95, Vol. 20 Issue 1, p79, 29p |
| Abstrakt: |
This experiment tested the effect that purpose for reading or instructional set has on reading rates, recall, and task performance for procedural text. It also tested whether comprehension models proposed by Kintsch and van Dijk (1978) and Trabasso and Sperry (1985) are predictive of text processing for procedural text. Forty-eight college students read text for one of two purposes: (a) to perform the task described by the text (Read-to-Do), or (b) to recall the text (Read-to-Recall). Participants read one of two procedural texts for two reading trials. The results showed that, as predicted, Read-to-Do participants performed the task better and Read-to-Recall participants recalled the text better. In addition, Read-to-Do participants recalled less of the information judged to be less important for performing the task than Read-to-Recall participants. Reading rate varied as a function of high and low importance of the information to task performance and varied more for the Read-to-Do participants than for Read-to-Recall participants. Reading rate also differed for the two texts and was faster for the second reading. Regression analyses showed that reading rate varied as a function of a number of variables based on the two models, but these variables did not account for a large proportion of variance in reading rate. Generally, different patterns of results were obtained for the two texts. Differences in the results for the two purposes and two texts are discussed, as well as the limitations in the predictive power of the two models of text comprehension for procedural text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: |
Complementary Index |
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