The Effects of Familiarization with Oral Expository Text on Listening and Reading Comprehension Levels
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2014Source
Reading PsychologyVolume
35Issue
7Pages
622-643Google Scholar check
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This study examined the effects of text type and early familiarization with oral expository text structures on listening and reading comprehension levels. Second-grade students read and listened to narrative and expository texts, and their comprehension was assessed with a sentence verification task. Half of the students had participated in a nine-week long intervention designed to familiarize them with oral expository structures in the previous year while in first grade. The findings indicated that familiarization did not lead to the expected advantage of listening over reading for either expository or narrative text. Implications concerning the conceptualization of comprehension as a unitary process construct are discussed. © 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.