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Peer reviewedSinger, Harry; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1973
Research supports Samuels' focal attention hypothesis for acquiring reading responses to novel words presented in isolation. (RB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Research
Peer reviewedTzeng, Ovid J. L.; Singer, Harry – Reading Research Quarterly, 1978
Analyzes a report by D.D. Steinberg and J. Yamada that investigated which of the different types of scripts used in Japanese writing was the easiest to learn to read. (MKM)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Comparative Education, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedSinger, Harry – Reading Research Quarterly, 1980
Critiques an experiment by M. Arlin, M. Scott, and J. Webster (see EJ 206 153) in which their pictures as an aid to learning hypothesis contrasts with the focal attention hypothesis supported by research by H. Singer, S. J. Samuels, and J. Spiroff (see EJ 105 648). (MKM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Pictorial Stimuli, Reading Instruction
