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ERIC Number: EJ276150
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1983
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Word Length and Word Shape as Sources of Information in Reading.
Haber, Lyn R.; And Others
Reading Research Quarterly, v18 n2 p165-89 Win 1983
Indicates that college students make use of word length and shape information to decode text and that the context of a passage affects students' knowledge of the syntactic structure and semantic content of that passage. (AEA)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Error Analysis (Language), Higher Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Semantics, Syntax, Word Recognition
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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