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ERIC Number: EJ389963
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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Explanatory Analogies Can Help Children Acquire Information from Expository Text.
Vosniadou, Stella; Schommer, Marlene
Journal of Educational Psychology, v80 n4 p524-36 Dec 1988
To study whether children profit from use of explanatory analogies to acquire information from expository text, 24 five-year-old kindergartners and 34 seven-year-old second graders listened to and had to recall texts with and without such analogies. Analogies provided assistance in information acquisition; the effect was stronger for older children. (SLD)
Descriptors: Analogy, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Information Sources, Instructional Effectiveness, Kindergarten Children, Learning Strategies, Primary Education, Young Children
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Expository Text; Text Learning; Text Processing (Reading)
Note: Parts of this paper were presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (San Francisco, CA, April 16-20, 1986).