Children's Problems in Text Comprehensio

Klappentext A 1991 examination of children's comprehension abilities by Yuill and Oakhill. Zusammenfassung Although some young children can read aloud with apparent fluency! they fail to understand fully or remember connected discourse. The authors of this 1991 work observed that teachers usually monitored reading ability by listening to children read aloud! or by using reading tests that concentrate on word recognition skills. Thus! comprehension problems could go unnoticed. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The nature of poor comprehension; 2. Background: reading, remembering and understanding; 3. Processing words and sentences; 4. Inferences and the integration of text; 5. Allocating resources during reading; 6. Metacognition and reading; 7. Using cohesive devices in narrative discourse; 8. Methods of improving poor comprehension; 9. Conclusions; Notes; References; List of related publications; Works cited; Indexes.

Product details

• Authors: Yuill Nicola, Jane Oakhill, Oakhill Jane, Nicola Yuill, Yuill Nicola
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.12.2009
• EAN: 9780521125796
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12579-6
• Series: Cambridge Monographs and Texts; Cambridge Monographs and Texts in Applied Psycholinguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; English, EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, EDUCATION / Learning Styles, Educational psychology, Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: English language: reading & writing skills, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General