Text Comprehension Training for Disabled Readers: An Evaluation of Reciprocal Teaching and Text Analysis Training Programs  

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Lovett, Maureen W. ; Borden, Susan L. ; Warren-Chaplin, Patricia M. ; Lacerenza, Lea ; Deluca, Teresa ; Giovinazzo, Rosa

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 54 no. 3 (1996), page 447-480.
Fulltext: 54_03_Lovett.pdf (179.22KB)

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We are particularly grateful to Dr. Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar for her helpful advice and generosity in sharing materials, procedures, and sample dialogues for use in the version of Reciprocal Teaching used in the present study. This research was supported by an operating grant to the first author from the Ontario Mental Health Foundation. We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of Janet Hinchley and Karen Steinbach in assisting with data collection and Nancy Benson, Carolyn Kroeber, and Karen Steinbach in assisting with data analysis. We thank Sheila Wroblewski and Rosemary Slyne for their contributions in program development and lesson planning. We are grateful to the Principals and staff of Winona and Jesse Ketchem Schools and the Toronto Board of Education for providing satellite locations and support for our programs. The enthusiasm and efforts of the 46 students enrolled in the present programs, and the cooperation and interest of their parents and teachers, are particularly acknowledged. Forty-six reading disabled adolescents were randomly assigned to one of three 25-hr instructional programs. Two programs provided training in expository text comprehension, and a third offered training in academic problem solving and organizational and study skills (an alternative treatment control). One reading comprehension program was designed to remediate a deficient knowledge base, forcing disabled readers to elaborate and further process new text knowledge, focusing on both specific informational content in a text and knowledge of text structure per se. The second program was patterned after the Palincsar and Brown (1984) reciprocal teaching techniques and focused on training four text comprehension strategies used by skilled comprehenders. Both the ‘‘knowledge-base’’ and the ‘‘strategy’’ training approaches were associated with significant improvement in disabled readers’ comprehension skills, although training effects did not generalize across all aspects of reading comprehension performance. Strategy-trained readers applied the trained strategies with equal success on instructed and uninstructed text materials, providing strong evidence of transfer of learning. Knowledge-base readers also demonstrated successful transfer of specifically trained procedures (semantic mapping, text analysis) to unfamiliar text. In both programs, the best outcomes were obtained when specific strategies and operations were targeted for training.

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