Text relevance and learning from text

Why do people from similar backgrounds who read the same text construct different meanings? Is there a question behind every reading goal, such that reading is an interactive process of asking and answering of questions? Do people who believe that knowledge is dynamic construct meaning differently t...

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Other Authors McCrudden, Matthew T. (Editor), Magliano, Joseph P. (Editor), Schraw, Gregory J. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2011]
Subjects
Reading comprehension.
Language Arts & Disciplines > Reading Skills.
Education.
Language learning: reading skills.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806616152
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-531-8
Physical Description1 online resource (vi, 421 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Relevance in text comprehension / Matthew T. McCrudden, Joseph P. Magliano, and Gregory Schraw
  • Chapter 2. Relevance processes in multiple document comprehension / Jean-François Rouet and M. Anne Britt
  • Chapter 3. Questions drive comprehension of text and multimedia / Art Graesser and Blair Lehman
  • Chapter 4. Interweaving memory-based processes into the goal-focusing model of text relevance / Karla A. Lassonde, Emily R. Smith, and Edward J. O'Brien
  • Chapter 5. The role of different task instructions and reader characteristics when learning from multiple expository texts / Ivar Bråten, Laura Gil, and Helge I. Strømsø
  • Chapter 6. When a reader meets a text: The role of standards of coherence in reading comprehension / Paul van den Broek, Catherine M. Bohn-Gettler, Panayiota Kendeou, Sarah Carlson, and Mary Jane White
  • Chapter 7. Focusing effects from online and offline reading tasks / David N. Rapp and Michael C. Mensink
  • Chapter 8. Identifying relevance in mathematical word problems and in non-mathematical texts: Similarities and differences / Joan Littlefield Cook
  • Chapter 9. The effects of reading purpose on advanced readers / Tracy Linderholm, Heekyung Kwon, and Xuesong Wang
  • Chapter 10. Online processing of and memory for perspective-relevant and irrelevant text information / Johanna K. Kaakinen and Jukka Hyönä
  • Chapter 11. The relevance of purpose: Why purpose situates relevance instructions / Crystal M. Ramsay and Rayne A. Sperling
  • Chapter 12. Individual differences in task-oriented reading / Eduardo Vidal Abarca, Ladislao Salmerón, and Amelia Mañá
  • Chapter 13. Question-driven processing in single and multiple texts / Raquel Cerdán, Laura Gil, and Eduardo Vidal Abarca
  • Chapter 14. Reader expectations of question formats and difficulty: Targeting the zone / Danielle S. McNamara and Kyle Dempsey
  • Chapter 15. Clarifying goals of reading for understanding from expository science text / Jennifer Wiley, Ivan K. Ash, Christopher A. Sanchez, and Allison Jaeger
  • Chapter 16. What we have been missing: The role of goals in reading comprehension / Panayiota Kendeou, Catherine Bohn-Gettler, and Sandra Fulton
  • Chapter 17. Toward an integrated view of relevance in text comprehension / Matthew T. McCrudden, Joseph P. Magliano, and Gregory Schraw
  • About the contributors.

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