Strategies for reading expository prose
| dc.contributor.author | Caron, Thomas Arthur | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Harker, W. John | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-15T15:26:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-01-15T15:26:53Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 1989 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-01-15 | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of Curriculum and Instruction | |
| dc.degree.level | Doctor of Philosophy Ph.D. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | In the context of reading strategy research, the present study explores changes with passage difficulty in the frequencies of occurrence of responses and strategies identified in expert readers' think-aloud protocols. Data consisted of tape recorded think-alouds collected from ten university undergraduates reading to summarize three expository passages ordered from simple to difficult by independent raters. Tapes were transcribed and six categories of responses and strategies were identified in subjects' protocols. The six categories, in order of frequency of occurrence, were: Metastatement, Problem Solving, Repetition, Surface Response, Surface Structure, and Divergent. There were significant differences across passage difficulty in expert readers' evidence of responses and strategies. The frequency of occurrence of problem solving increased significantly as subjects read increasingly difficult expository text. Both surface reactions to text and subjects' comments on their own reading, were high in frequency of occurrence only for the most difficult text. Interpretation suggests expert readers seem to engage with text through problem solving more often in reading more difficult text and demonstrate the existence of a lack of comprehension through reactions to the text and to their own reading. Implications for practice and research are discussed. | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/8977 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.subject | reading strategies | en_US |
| dc.subject | problem solving | en_US |
| dc.subject | think-aloud | en_US |
| dc.subject | Exposition (Rhetoric) | en_US |
| dc.title | Strategies for reading expository prose | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |