Criticai Perspectives in Reading: A Review of Selected Research in Language Arts Reported in 1971 *

Davis F. B. Identification and measurement of reading skills of high school students. USOE Cooperative Research Project Number 3023. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania, 1967.

Davis F. B. Psychometric research on comprehension in reading. New Brunswick, N.J.: Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University, 1971.

Dixon E. A. Syntactic indexes and student writing performances. Unpublished study, Chicago City College, 1971.

Foshay A. W. Educational achievements of thirteen-year-olds in twelve countries. Hamburg, Germany: UNESCO Institute for Education, 1962.

Fox S. Syntactic maturity and vocabulary diversity in the oral language of kindergarten and primary school children. Unpublished study, Ohio State University, 1971.

Graves R. Watkins J. F. Using advertising to teach sentence sense: A promising technique for slow learners. Unpublished study, Auburn University, 1971.

Jurgens J. M. Perception of lexical and structural ambiguity by junior and senior high school students. Unpublished study, St. Mary's College of O'Fallon, 1971.

Kessel F. S. The role of syntax in children's comprehension from ages six to twelve. Monograph of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1970, 55, Serial No. 139.

Loman B. Conversations in a Negro American dialect. Unpublished study, Washington, D.C., 1967.

O'Hare F. The effect of sentence-combining practice not dependent on formal knowledge of a grammar on the writing of seventh graders. Unpublished study, Florida State University, 1971.

Otto W. Thorndike's “Reading as reasoning”: Influence and impact. Reading Research Quarterly, Summer, 1971, 439–441.

Ramsey I. A comparison of first grade Negro dialect speakers' comprehension of standard English and Negro dialect. Unpublished study, Eastern Kentucky University, 1971.

Stauffer R. G. Thorndike's “Reading as reasoning”: A perspective. Reading Research Quarterly, Summer, 1971, 443–448.

Stoodt B. D. The relationship between understanding grammatical conjunctions and reading comprehension. Unpublished study, University of Ohio, 1971.

Thorndike E. L. Reading as reasoning: A study of mistakes in paragraph reading. Journal of Educational Psychology, 1917, 8, 322–332.

Thorndike R. L. An unpublished paper delivered to the American Psychological Association Convention, Washington, D.C., October, 1971. Published in Hungarian Yearbook of Educational Research in Budapest, 1971.

Williams F. Rundell E. Teaching teachers to comprehend Negro nonstandard English. The Speech Teacher, 1971, 20, 178–183.