Signals in Expository Prose: Effects on Reading Comprehension.

Spyridakis, Jan H.|Standal, Timothy C.

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Publication Date: 1987

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Signals in Expository Prose: Effects on Reading Comprehension.

Spyridakis, Jan H.; Standal, Timothy C.

Reading Research Quarterly, v22 n3 p285-98 Sum 1987

Examines the effects of three text signal types (headings, previews, logical connectives) on relatively sophisticated college age readers and their comprehension of technical expository prose. Concludes that all three types can enhance comprehension, but that facilitation depends on passage length and difficulty. (FL)

Descriptors: Context Clues, Expository Writing, Higher Education, Language Usage, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Theory Practice Relationship, Writing for Publication

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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