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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