Beyond the Instrumentalist Hypothesis [electronic resource] : Some Relationships between Word Meanings and Comprehension. Technical Report No. 505 / Steven A. Stahl.

Globally, knowledge of word meanings is related to reading comprehension. R. C. Anderson and P. Freebody's (1981) seminal paper on vocabulary set forth three hypotheses to explain this relationship--an "instrumentalist" hypothesis suggesting that knowledge of word meanings directly ca...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Stahl, Steven A.
Corporate Authors:	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for the Study of Reading, Bolt, Beranek, and Newman
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1990.
Subjects:	Context Clues. Learning Processes. Learning Theories. Models. Reading Comprehension. Reading Research. Reading Skills. Theory Practice Relationship. Vocabulary Development. Vocabulary Skills. Word Recognition.