caa a22 4500 469066954 CHVBK 20180323132911.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01027071 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01027071 Teaching community-college students to follow the train of thought in expository texts [Elektronische Daten] [Carl Spring, James Prager] Community-college students in a one-semester remedial reading course were taught that main ideas in expository texts are located in sentences connected by rhetorical relations into trains of thought. After extensive practice with a variety of materials, they were compared to students in no-treatment and alternative-treatment control groups on (a) identifying main ideas while reading a test passage, and (b) recalling main ideas and supporting details two days later. The test passage differed in rhetorical structure from passages previously studied. Results indicated that the experimental group scored significantly higher than both control groups on main-idea identification. The experimental group also scored significantly higher than the alternative-treatment group on the free-recall of main ideas but not supporting details. Effect sizes were generally large. Information about the course is presented, and the theoretical rationale for its design is discussed. Implications for classroom instruction and for the reading comprehension curriculum are discussed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Community college nationallicence Expository text nationallicence Adult reading nationallicence Main ideas nationallicence Reading comprehension nationallicence Text structure nationallicence Spring Carl Division of Education, University of California, 95616, Davis, CA, U.S.A. aut Prager James Department of English, Yuba College, Marysville, Calif., U.S.A. aut Reading and Writing Kluwer Academic Publishers 4/1(1992-03-01), 33-54 0922-4777 4:1<33 1992 4 11145 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01027071 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01027071 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Spring Carl Division of Education, University of California, 95616, Davis, CA, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Prager James Department of English, Yuba College, Marysville, Calif., U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Reading and Writing Kluwer Academic Publishers 4/1(1992-03-01), 33-54 0922-4777 4:1<33 1992 4 11145 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer