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    Adults' and children's monitoring of story events in the service of comprehension

    Date
    2011-08
    Author
    Bohn-Gettler, Catherine M.
    Rapp, David N.
    Van den Broek, Paul
    Kendeou, Panayiota
    White, Mary Jane
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    Memory & cognition. 2011 Aug; 39(6): 992-1011.
    Abstract
    When reading narratives, adults monitor shifts in time, space, characters, goals, and causation. Shifts in any of these dimensions affect both moment-by-moment reading and memory organization. The extant developmental literature suggests that middle school children have relatively sophisticated understandings of each of these dimensions but does not indicate whether they spontaneously monitor these dimensions during reading experiences. In four experiments, we examined the processing of event shifts by adults and children, using both an explicit verb-clustering task and a reading time task. The results indicate that middle school children's and adults' post-reading memory is organized using these dimensions but that children do not monitor dimensions during moment-by-moment reading in the same manner as adults. These differences were not a function of differentially difficult texts for children and adults, or between-group differences. The findings have implications for models of adult and child text processing and for understanding children's developing narrative comprehension.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10057/4465
    http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13421-011-0085-0
    http://hdl.handle.net/10057/16254
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