title: Investigating the role of context in learning to read: a direct test of Goodman's model.
abstract: The much discussed 'whole language' or 'real books' approach to children's reading is based on a theory which makes two quite separate predictions: (1) that children will read difficult words more successfully in context than in isolation, and (2) that contextual experience of words will lead to greater improvements in word reading than isolated experience of words. We report a study which tests both predictions and supports the first but not the second.
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, UK. n.archer@iop.kcl.ac.uk
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Archer
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bryant
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003210:Concept Formation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011932:Reading; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*