Some Issues in the Measurement of Children's Comprehension of Metaphorical Language. Technical Report No. 172

Some Issues in the Measurement of Children's Comprehension of Metaphorical Language. Technical Report No. 172 [electronic resource] / Ralph E. Reynolds and Andrew Ortony.

A total of 411 elementary school children seven to twelve years old read short prose passages and selected the most appropriate continuation sentence from four alternatives. The completion sentences were constructed so that the correct (target) response involved either an explicit (simile) or an imp...

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Main Author: Reynolds, Ralph E.
Corporate Authors: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for the Study of Reading, Bolt, Beranek, and Newman
Other Authors: Ortony, Andrew
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1980.
Subjects:
Cognitive Processes.
Discourse Analysis.
Elementary Education.
Figurative Language.
Language Acquisition.
Language Processing.
Metaphors.
Reading Comprehension.
Reading Research.

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