Increasing Metacomprehension in Learning Disabled and Normally Achieving Students through Self-Questioning Training.

Wong, Bernice Y. L.; Jones, Wayne

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ERIC Number: EJ284003

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1982

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Increasing Metacomprehension in Learning Disabled and Normally Achieving Students through Self-Questioning Training.

Wong, Bernice Y. L.; Jones, Wayne

Learning Disability Quarterly, v5 n3 p228-40 Sum 1982

Training to self-monitor reading comprehension was undertaken with 120 learning disabled eighth and ninth graders and normally achieving sixth graders. It was hypothesized that insufficient metacomprehension is one possible cause underlying learning disabled adolescents' comprehension problems. (Author/SEW)

Descriptors: Intervention, Junior High Schools, Learning Disabilities, Learning Processes, Metacognition, Questioning Techniques, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Reading Research, Recall (Psychology), Study Skills

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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