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A COMPARISON OF TWO METHODS OF IMPROVING PROSE COMPREHENSION IN EDUCATIONALLY SUBNORMAL CHILDREN
Author(s) -
RIDING R. J.,
SHORE J. M.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1974.tb00783.x
Subject(s) - comprehension , psychology , recall , presentation (obstetrics) , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , linguistics , philosophy , medicine , radiology
S ummary . Two attempts to facilitate the aural reception of prose material in educationally subnormal children were compared. The methods used were (1) to show illustrations of items occurring in the details as they were presented, with the aim of aiding imaginal, in addition to verbal, recoding, and (2) to slow the rate of presentation of the material to allow more time for the subjects to analyse and store the information. Both methods produced similar significant improvements in recall performance that were large enough to be of practical usefulness. Ways of studying the recoding performance of educationally subnormal children to provide information to enable further improvement in reception were examined.