Cain, Kate and Nash, Hannah M. (2011) The influence of connectives on young readers' processing and comprehension of text. Journal of Educational Psychology, 103 (2). pp. 429-441. ISSN 0022-0663
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Connectives are cohesive devices that signal the relations between clauses and are critical to the construction of a coherent representation of a text's meaning. The authors investigated young readers' knowledge, processing, and comprehension of temporal, causal, and adversative connectives using offline and online tasks. In a doze task, 10-year-olds were more accurate than 8-year-olds on temporal and adversative connectives, but both age groups differed from adult levels of performance (Experiment 1). When required to rate the "sense" of 2-clause sentences linked by connectives, 10-year-olds and adults were better at discriminating between clauses linked by appropriate and inappropriate connectives than were 8-year-olds. The 10-year-olds differed from adults only on the temporal connectives (Experiment 2). In contrast, online reading time measures indicated that 8-year-olds' processing of text is influenced by connectives as they read, in much the same way as 10-year-olds'. Both age groups read text more quickly when target 2-clause sentences were linked by an appropriate connective compared with texts in which a connective was neutral (and), inappropriate to the meaning conveyed by the 2 clauses, or not present (Experiments 3 and 4). These findings indicate that although knowledge and comprehension of connectives is still developing in young readers, connectives aid text processing in typically developing readers.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Educational Psychology |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | children ; connectives ; reading comprehension ; text processing ; COHERENCE RELATIONS ; COGNITIVE-COMPLEXITY ; LINGUISTIC MARKERS ; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE ; CONJUNCTIONS ; ACQUISITION ; CHILDREN ; LANGUAGE ; ORDER ; DISCOURSE |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
| Departments: | Faculty of Science and Technology > Psychology |
| ID Code: | 53220 |
| Deposited By: | ep_importer_pure |
| Deposited On: | 19 Mar 2012 13:27 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2012 20:12 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/53220 |
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