THE PRESENTATION OF THEMES AS AN AID TO THE INTEGRATION OF MEANING IN READING

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  • 読みにおける意味統合への手がかりとしてのテーマの提示
  • THE EFFECT OF THE DIVISION OF THEME INTO ITS CONSTITUENTS

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Four presentation strategies were adopted to examine the effects of theme on comprehension in stories. Subjects given a main theme only knew it before reading the passage. Simultaneous group read both the main and the subordinate themes on the first page. Alternate group read the main theme first and then was presented subordinate themes and their corresponding paragraphs alternatively. The results showed that these three groups which were given themes tended to include more ideas in their recall protocols than the Control group which was given no theme. There was no significant difference among the three groups given the themes. Similar tendencies were found in both reproductive and constructive measures on memory. These results showed that the readers encoded the given stories by integrating individual sentences with the theme, but such integration was difficult to occur for the materials of which the whole meaning could easily be extracted.

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