| Sources of Coherence in Reading Contributor(s): Lorch, Robert F., Jr. (Editor), O'Brien, Edward J. (Editor), Lorch, Robert F. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0805816372 ISBN-13: 9780805816372 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $90.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1995 Annotation: During the last 20 years, there has been an enormous amount of research examining sources of coherence in reading. A major tenet of this work has been the distinction between two major sources of coherence. "Text-based" sources of coherence are contained within the text itself -- use of headings to indicate aspects of a text's macrostructure; "reader-based" sources of coherence encompass the information and strategies that the reader brings to the comprehension process. Many early models of reading comprehension emphasized text-based sources of coherence as a way of understanding how a representation of the text is constructed in memory. However, during the last decade, there has been a clear shift of theoretical perspective away from viewing reading comprehension as a process of representing a text to viewing comprehension as a process of representing what a text is about. This has led to a greater emphasis on reader-based sources of coherence. The purpose of this book is to bring together the large body of evidence addressing the roles of text-based and reader-based sources of coherence in reading comprehension. The contributors present the current state of cognitive theory and research on comprehension of discourse. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading & Phonics |
| Dewey: 418.4 |
| LCCN: 94006857 |
| Lexile Measure: 1400 |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 5.96" W x 9.08" (1.50 lbs) 432 pages |