Learning and Instruction
Volume 15, Number 1
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 4
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Socio-cultural differences and the adjustment of mothers' speech to their children's cognitive and language comprehension skills
Zilda Fidalgo & Frederico Pereira
This study compares the ways in which mothers with two different levels of education adjust to their 3-to-5 year-old children's cognitive and language comprehension skills when engaged in different... More
pp. 1-21
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Deriving word meaning from written context: a process analysis
R.G. Fukkink
The paper reports on a study among primary-school students of the process of deriving word meaning from written context in a first language. A sequential analysis of think-aloud protocols revealed ... More
pp. 23-43
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Some good texts are always better: text revision to foster inferences of readers with high and low prior background knowledge
Ramiro Gilabert, Gabriel Martínez & Eduardo Vidal-Abarca
This paper presents two experiments testing whether an approach to revise a text that fosters the reader's active processing benefits both high and low-knowledge readers. A history text and two... More
pp. 45-68
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The realistic reasons behind unrealistic solutions: the role of interpretive activity in word problem solving
Noriyuki Inoue
It is known that school-aged children have a strong tendency to solve mathematical word problems by mechanically calculating numbers even if their calculational answers seem unrealistic. The... More
pp. 69-83
