An Investigation of the Effects of Prior Knowledge and Vocabulary Acquisition on Passage Comprehension. Program Report 84-5 [electronic resource] / Dale D. Johnson and Others.

A study was conducted to identify the contributions of both prior knowledge and prereading vocabulary instruction to passage comprehension. In addition, semantic mapping and semantic feature analysis--instructional strategies that build upon students' prior knowledge--were compared with a modif...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Johnson, Dale D.
Corporate Author:	Wisconsin Center for Education Research
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1984.
Subjects:	Comparative Analysis. Grade 4. Intermediate Grades. Language Acquisition. Prior Learning. Reading Comprehension. Reading Instruction. Reading Research. Reading Strategies. Teaching Methods. Vocabulary Development.