The Role of Reading Comprehension and Local Context Characteristics in Word Meaning Acquisition During Reading

Although a number of studies have examined vocabulary acquisition from context and the factors that might affect it (Carnine, Kameenui & Coyle, 1984; Jenkins, Stein & Wysocki, 1984; Nagy, Anderson & Herman, 1987; Schatz & Baldwin, 1986), the findings do not present a very clear picture as to the extent to which such learning takes place. One possible reason for the inconsistent findings is related to the way the context of a word has been conceptualized. Context has generally been assumed to refer to the immediate or local context that happens to surround a word. This conceptualization of context is limited in the sense that it does not take into account the mental representation that the reader is constructing on the basis of a variety of information contained in the text as well as prior knowledge.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Anderson, Richard C.
• Nagy, William E.

• Education, Educational Psychology
• Education, Reading

Identifier

(UMI)AAI9329013

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oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/71939