The Influence of Analogy in Children's Acquisition of New Information from Text : An Exploratory Study. Technical Report No. 281 / Stella Vosniadou and Andrew Ortony.

A study examined the influence of extended analogies on the comprehension of unfamiliar texts by primary grade children. Subjects, 16 first- and 16 third-grade children, listened to two passages that described how the blood circulates in the body and how an infection heals. The passages were present...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Vosniadou, Stella
Ortony, Andrew (Author)
Corporate Authors: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for the Study of Reading
Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc., Cambridge, MA
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1983.
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Physical Description:25 pages
Format: Microfilm Book

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