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A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Reading Comprehension

Reviewed canonical citation: Steffensen, M. S., Joag-Dev, C., & Anderson, R. C. (1979). A cross-cultural perspective on reading comprehension. Reading Research Quarterly, 15(1), 10-29.
study independent1 occurrences across 1 book · load 1
Reviewed source identity

A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Reading Comprehension · version family

Review authority: Codex multi-agent D1-D2 primary-source audit; not human-signed

Steffensen, M. S., Joag-Dev, C., & Anderson, R. C. (1979). A cross-cultural perspective on reading comprehension. Reading Research Quarterly, 15(1), 10-29.

Primary reviewed work · study

A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Reading Comprehension

Margaret S. Steffensen, Chitra Joag-Dev, Richard C. Anderson · 1979 · Reading Research Quarterly

published journal version

doi.org/10.2307/747429 · checked record

Review state: metadata checked; journal full text not read

Related family member · technical report

A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Reading Comprehension

Margaret S. Steffensen, Chitra Jogdeo, Richard C. Anderson · 1978 · Center for the Study of Reading Technical Report No. 97

prepublication technical-report version; substantive text read for Dossier 1

checked record

Review state: full text read

Identity boundary still open
  • The 1978 report spells the second author's surname Jogdeo; the reviewed journal metadata gives Joag-Dev. The corpus form Joag-Des is incorrect.
Used in Dossier 1

Steffensen, Joag-Dev and Anderson 1979 · supports A2, supports A4

Role

shared schema cross cultural test

Access / review

full technical report; primary equivalent read — Full 1978 technical report, including design, cell means and tests; journal version not read

Independence for this use

primary independent

No dossier-specific basis recorded.

Can establish

A culturally congruent schema changes reading time, gist recall, elaboration and distortion.

Cannot establish

Broad curricular transfer or population-wide magnitude.

Open limitation: Small adult sample in one university community and one text per culture.

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How Hirsch uses it

Every occurrence, grouped by book and chapter, with the claim it was linked to support and (where the extraction regenerated one) the underlying warrant.

1987 · Cultural Literacy
An experiment by Richard C. Anderson comparing Indian and American readers' comprehension of letters describing weddings in their respective cultures.
direct Reading skill and comprehension speed are directly dependent on the reader's cultural literacy.
ch 1 · empirical_study · cl:ch1_E30
Warrant (explicit): The speed and accuracy of text processing are determined primarily by the reader's pre-existing mental models of the subject matter.
could fail ifThe experiment may be measuring cultural familiarity rather than general 'reading skill,' as a reader could be highly skilled but simply lack the specific vocabulary of a foreign wedding.
Endnote numbers seen

Raw book:chapter:endnote references collected during endnote backfill.

cl:1:17
Raw source_reference strings seen

As they appeared before normalization/consolidation into this source identity.

  • M. S. Steffensen, C. Joag-Des, and R. C. Anderson, 'A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Reading Comprehension' (1979)