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| Influence of text genre on adults' monitoring of understanding and recall | | Author(s) | Karen M Zabrucky, DeWayne Moore |
| Journal title | Educational Gerontology, vol 25, no 8, December 1999 |
| Pages | pp 691-710 |
| Keywords | Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; Reading ; Cognitive processes ; Memory and Reminiscence ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors examined adults' memory for different types of texts by assessing ways in which problematic information was recalled. Younger and older adults' sentence reading times, sentence re-readings, and memory for texts containing inconsistent information were assessed in an on-line analysis. Adults' reading times were affected by text genre, with age differences found for expository but not narrative passages. Reading times of all adults were hindered when reading expository passages, with proportionately more disruption for older people. Although younger and older people reread sentences more frequently to expository passages, they recalled more information in narrative and were more likely to accurately comment on inconsistencies after rereading. Use of a general reading strategy was related to recall of narrative and expository passages, but the ability to selectively reread problematic text information was related only to expository text recall. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000121214 A |
| Classmark | BB: SD6: HKM: DA: DB: 7T |
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