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A COMPARISON OF READING COMPREHENSION PROCESSES IN POLISH AND ENGLISH *
Author(s) -
Danks Joseph H.,
Kurcz Ida
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1080/00207598408247530
Subject(s) - linguistics , comprehension , psychology , reading comprehension , reading (process) , semantics (computer science) , class (philosophy) , syntax , cognition , reading aloud , computer science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , neuroscience , programming language
Two experiments in Polish replicated several conditions in English experiments on reading comprehension processes. In Polish syntactic information is represented primarily by morphology and in English primarily by word order. Lexical, syntactic + semantic, within‐syntactic class, between‐syntactic class, semantic, and factual information were violated in stories. Native speakers read the stories aloud and the protocols were scored for increases in production time around violations. The disruptions in oral reading caused by the syntactic violations were relatively larger and occurred earlier in Polish than in English. The semantic and factual violations produced broader disruptions in English than in Polish. Reading comprehension processes varied to meet the cognitive demands imposed by how the available information was represented. Polish readers adopted a focused strategy and English readers a more diffused strategy.