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Publication details [#28451]

McNamara, Danielle S. and Walter Kintsch. 1996. Learning from texts: Effects of prior knowledge and text coherence. Discourse Processes 22 (3) : 247–288.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

coherence | knowledge | learning | text, comprehension of

Place, Publisher

Ablex Publishing Company

ISBN

0163-853X

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This study examines the effects of individual reader characteristics, such as prior knowledge, and text characteristics, such as high and low coherence, on text comprehension processes.