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Unit 1D: Expository Prose and Informational Analysis (82)Unit 1C: Purpose, Audience and Context in Rhetoric (55)Unit 1E: Persuasive Strategies and Audience Appeals (21)

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Which researchers first identified shallow and deep levels of processing?Read the answer and worked solution →Linking a new word's meaning to similar words is which processing?Read the answer and worked solution →Which kind of processing deals with word structure and the sounds of words?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the effect of a smaller vocabulary on reading comprehension?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which researchers first identified shallow and deep levels of processing?

  1. Craik and Lockhart
  2. Palincsar and Brown
  3. Black and Wiliam
  4. Aaron and Frederiksen
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Correct answer: A. Craik and Lockhart

1. Reading comprehension is described at two levels of processing, shallow and deep. 2. The theory behind these levels was first identified by Fergus Craik and Robert Lockhart. 3. Palincsar and Brown are linked to reciprocal teaching, and Black and Wiliam to formative assessment, so they do not fit. _Source: Wikipedia, Reading comprehension, section Reading comprehension levels_

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Linking a new word's meaning to similar words is which processing?

  1. Shallow phonemic processing
  2. Structural word recognition
  3. Visual letter scanning
  4. Deep semantic processing
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Correct answer: D. Deep semantic processing

1. Encoding the meaning of a word and relating it to similar words is semantic work. 2. Semantic work is called deep processing in comprehension research. 3. Shallow processing deals only with word structure and sounds, so the other options fail. _Source: Wikipedia, Reading comprehension, section Reading comprehension levels_

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Which kind of processing deals with word structure and the sounds of words?

  1. Deep processing
  2. Semantic processing
  3. Shallow processing
  4. Inferential processing
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Correct answer: C. Shallow processing

1. Shallow processing involves structural and phonemic recognition. 2. It covers sentence and word structure and their associated sounds. 3. Deep or semantic processing is about meaning, so those options fail. _Source: Wikipedia, Reading comprehension, section Reading comprehension levels_

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