PHRASE-SPACED FORMATS IMPROVE COMPREHENSION IN AVERAGE READERS

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JANDREAU, S
BEVER, T
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10.1037/0021-9010.77.2.143
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B849 [应用心理学];
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College readers read and answered questions on 12 short essays. Essays formatted so that points between phrases had fractional extra space added to them were comprehended better than normally formatted text. These improvements were specific to average readers. Practically, the results justify classroom research on the benefits of phrase-sensitive formatting; theoretically, the results add to existing evidence that poor to average readers specifically lack perceptual strategies for grouping word sequences into phrases.
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