Gaonac'h, D., & Passerault, J. (1990). Importance markers and treatment of textual elements: Immediate and delayed effects. [Marquage de l'importance et traitement des elements dans un texte: effets immediat et differe.] European Journal of Psychology of Education, 5(1), 59-68.

Gaonac'h, D.; Passerault, J.

1990

Gaonac'h, D., & Passerault, J. (1990). Importance markers and treatment of textual elements: Immediate and delayed effects. [Marquage de l'importance et traitement des elements dans un texte: effets immediat et differe.] European Journal of Psychology of Education, 5(1), 59-68.

This study examines the role of linguistic and paralinguistic importance markers in expository texts in controlling the reader's comprehension activity. 32 adult volunteers, subdivided into 4 groups of 8, were assigned 4 different versions of an expository text. The target sentence was called to the S's attention either through a linguistic signal (a preceding sentence) or a paralinguistic signal (underlining of part of the target sentence). Results show that importance signals mobilize the reader's high-level representation activity and facilitate his/her overall textual comprehension.

Results show that importance signals mobilize the reader's high-level representation activity and facilitate his/her overall textual comprehension.

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