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Gagnon, Renee; Ziarko, Helene – Online Submission, 2012
This paper presents the results of a predicative analysis led on comparison and problem-solution texts produced by pupils of the second and third grades of primary school following a set of reading and writing instructional activities. The production of those texts is of a special challenge to the young writers because of the cognitive and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Foreign Countries, Expository Writing, Reading Instruction
Shu, Hua; And Others – 1994
A study investigated children's natural learning of word meanings while reading. Subjects, 447 American and Chinese children in third and fifth grades, read one of two cross-translated stories and then completed a test on the difficult words in both stories. Results indicated: (1) significant incidental learning of word meanings in both grades in…
Descriptors: Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Education