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Effects of Comprehension Monitoring Instruction for Reading Disabled Students With and Without Tinted Glasses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Lorna K.S. Chan  and
Gregory L.W. Robinson
Lorna K.S. Chan
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle
Gregory L.W. Robinson
Affiliation:
Hunter Institute of Higher Education
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Abstract

Forty disabled readers, half with tinted lenses and half without, and 40 average readers, half matched with the disabled readers on chronological age and half on reading age, were randomly assigned to either a general or a specific instruction condition. In both treatments subjects were shown how to monitor text for internal inconsistency. In addition, the specific instruction condition provided explicit instruction in how to use a cross-referencing technique to evaluate the internal consistency of a given text. Results indicated that the disabled readers with tinted lenses resembled the CA-match average readers, but differed from the disabled readers without lenses in not requiring specific instruction in the use of evaluative standards for comprehension monitoring. But at the same time, the lenses group had not quite attained the level of competence observed in the CA-match average readers.

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Research Article
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Australasian Journal of Special Education , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , May 1989 , pp. 4 - 13
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Copyright © The Australian Association of Special Education 1989

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