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Titel
The Influence of Reading Purpose on Inference Generation and Comprehension in Reading
Autor(es)
Schlagwort
Comprehension in Reading
Reading Purpose
Inference Generation
Expository text
Narrative text
Fecha de publicación
1999
Citación
Narvaez, D, Broek, P. Van den y Barrón Ruiz, A. (1999). The Influence of Reading Purpose on Inference Generation and Comprehension in Reading. Journal of Educational Psychology, 91, (3), 488-496
Resumen
[EN]There are variations in the extent to which particular types of inferences or activations are
made during reading (G. McKoon & R. Ratcliff, 1992; M. Singer, 1994). In this study, the
authors investigated the influence of reading purpose (for entertainment or study) on inference
generation. Participants read 2 texts aloud and 2 texts for comprehension measures. Reading
purpose did not influence off-line behavior (comprehension) but did influence on-line reader
behavior (thinking aloud). Readers with a study purpose more often repeated the text,
acknowledged a lack of background knowledge, and evaluated the text content and writing
than did readers with an entertainment purpose. This pattern was stronger for the expository
text than for the narrative text. Reading purpose, and possibly text type, affects the kinds of
inferences that readers generate. Hence, inferential activities are at least partially under the
reader's strategic control.
URI
ISSN
0022-0663
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