Journal article
Transfer Effects across Contextual and Linguistic Boundaries: Evidence from Poor Readers
Abstract
We report two experiments that are consistent with two hypotheses about poor, nonfluent readers: (1) fluency gains in text reading skill transfer across contextual and linguistic boundaries and (2) these fluency gains enable higher-order comprehension operations to function in the processing of text. We conclude that unlike the fluent reader, the nonfluent reader does not completely integrate the surface characteristics (words) of the text and …
Authors
Bourassa DC; Levy BA; Dowin S; Casey A
Journal
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 71, No. 1, pp. 45–61
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
10 1998
DOI
10.1006/jecp.1998.2459
ISSN
0022-0965