Unit 4 (October 10, 17, 24, 31)

Discourse and Learning from Text

10/10 Introduction to discourse and its study

Clark, H. H. (1994). Discourse in production. In. M.A. Gernsbacher (ed.), Handbook of psycholinguistic research (pp. 985-1021).
NY: Academic Press. (pdf)

Graesser, A. C., Gernsbacher, M. A., & Goldman, S. R. (1997). Cognition. In T. A. van Dijk (Ed.), Discourse as structure and process
(pp. 292-319). London, England: Sage. (pdf)

Zwaan, R., & Radvansky, G. A. (1998). Situation models in language comprehension and memory. Psychological Bulletin, 123,
162-185. (pdf)

Additional Readings (Available from Instructor)

Clark, H. H. & Bly, B. (1995). Pragmatics and discourse. In J. L. Miller & P. D. Eimas (Eds.), Handbook of perception and cognition:
Vol 1: Speech, language, and communication (2nd ed., pp. 371 - 410). San Diego: Academic Press. (pdf)

10/17 Story Schema and Comprehension

Brewer, W. F. (1985). The story schema: universal and culture-specific properties. In D. R. Olson, N. Torrance, & A. Hildyard (Eds.),
Literacy, language, and learning: The nature and consequences of learning to read (pp. 167 - 194). Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University
Press. (pdf)

Van den Broek, P., & Gustafson, M. (1999). Comprehension and memory for texts: Three generations of reading research.
In S. R. Goldman, A. C. Graesser, & P. van den Broek (eds.), Narrative comprehension, causality, and coherence (pp. 15-34).
Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. (pdf)

van den Broek, P., Rohleder, L., & Narváez, D., (1994). Cognitive processes in the comprehension of literary texts.
In H. Oostendorp & R. Zwaan (Eds.), Naturalistic text comprehension (pp. 229-246). Norwood, NJ: Ablex. (pdf)

Additional Readings (Available from Instructor)

Trabasso, T., & van den Broek, P. (1985). Causal thinking and the representation of narrative events. Journal of Memory and Language, 24, 612-630.

Graesser, A. C., McMahen, C. L., & Johnson, B. K. (1994). Question asking and answering. In M. A. Gernsbacher (Ed.), Handbook of psycholinguistics (pp. 517 - 538). NY: Academic Press.

Haberlandt, K. F., & Graesser, A. C. (1985). Component processes in text comprehension and some of their interactions. Journal of Experiment Psychology: General, 114, 357-374.

10/24 Inferences in comprehension

Graesser, A. C., Singer, M., & Trabasso, T. (1994). Constructing inferences during narrative text comprehension.
Psychological Review, 101, 371-395. (pdf)

McKoon, G. & Ratcliff, R. (1992). Inference during reading. Psychological Review, 99, 440 - 466. (pdf)

O'Brien, E. J., & Myers, J. L. (1999). Text comprehension: A view from the bottom up. In S. R. Goldman, A. C. Graesser, & P. van den Broek (eds.), Narrative comprehension, causality, and coherence (pp. 35 - 53). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. (pdf)

10/31 Learning from Text

Alexander, P. A., & Jetton, T. L. (2000). Learning from text: A multidimensional and developmental perspective.
In M. L. Kamil, P. B. Mosenthal, P. D. Pearson, & R Barr (Eds.), Handbook of reading research, Vol. III (pp. 285-310).
Mahway, NJ: Erlbaum. (pdf)

Goldman, S. R., & Rakestraw, J. (2000). Structural aspects of constructing meaning from text. In M. L. Kamil, P. B. Mosenthal, P. D.
Pearson, & R Barr (Eds.), Handbook of reading research, Vol. III (pp. 311-335). Mahway, NJ: Erlbaum. (pdf)

Kintsch, W. (1994). Text comprehension, memory, and learning. American Psychologist, 294-303. (pdf)

Meyer, B. J. F. (1999). Importance of text structure in everyday reading. In A. Ram & K. Moorman (eds.),
Understanding language understanding (pp. 227-252). Cambridge: MIT Press. (pdf)

Additional Readings (Available from Instructor)

Goldman, S. R. (1997). Learning from text: Reflections on the past and suggestions for the future. Discourse Processes, 23, 357-398. (pdf)

Kintsch, W., Britton, B. K., Fletcher, C. R., Kintsch, E. , Mannes, S. M., & Nathan, M. J. (1993). A comprehension-based approach to learning and understanding. In D. L. Medin (Ed.), The psychology of learning and motivation, Vol. 30, pp. 165 - 214. ( This article is broken up into several sections. The section from 165 - 185 constitutes hangs together well and will count as one additional reading. The sections from185 - 214 constitute a second additional reading.)

Kintsch, E., (1990). Macroprocesses and microprocesses in the development of summarization skill. Cognition and Instruction, 7, 161-195.

De la Luz Reyes, M. (1987). Comprehension of content are passages: A study of Spanish/English Readers in third and fourth grade. In S. R. Goldman & H. T. Trueba (Eds.), Becoming literate in English as a second language (pp. 107 - 126). Norwood, NJ: Ablex. (pdf)

Hegarty, M., Carpenter, P. A., & Just, M. A. (1991). Diagrams in the comprehension of scientific texts. In . In , R. Barr, M. L. Kamil, P. B. Mosenthal, & P. D. Pearson (Eds.), Handbook of reading research, Vol. II (pp. 641-668). NY: Longman.