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Download full textRomán, Diego X.; Briceño, Allison; Rohde, Hannah; Hironaka, Stephanie – Electronic Journal of Science Education, 2016
Learning from textbooks is challenging because students must understand novel concepts while also comprehending the language used to convey those concepts. In the domain of science, one posited reason for the perceived difficulty in the reading comprehension of science texts is the low frequency of logical connectives (words that signal…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Connected Discourse, Reading Comprehension, Textbooks
