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Gasparinatou, Alexandra; Grigoriadou, Maria – Educational Psychology, 2013
In this study, we examine the effect of background knowledge and local cohesion on learning from texts. The study is based on construction-integration model. Participants were 176 undergraduate students who read a Computer Science text. Half of the participants read a text of maximum local cohesion and the other a text of minimum local cohesion.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Computer Science, Textbooks
Clark, Sarah K.; Jones, Cindy D.; Reutzel, D. Ray – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2013
Teaching children in the primary grades the text structures and features used by authors of information text has been shown to improve comprehension of information texts and provide the scaffolding and support these children need in order to write their own information texts. As teachers implement the "English Language Arts Common Core State…
Descriptors: State Standards, Reading Comprehension, Academic Standards, Text Structure
Tops, W.; Callens, C.; Van Cauwenberghe, E.; Adriaens, J.; Brysbaert, M. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
To have a clearer idea of the problems students with dyslexia may face during their studies, we compared writings of 100 students with dyslexia and 100 age matched control students in higher education. The aim of this study was to compare the writing of young adults with dyslexia and young adults without dyslexia. The study was carried out in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Skills, Spelling, Handwriting
Shrikumar, Aditi – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation presents a new tool for exploratory text analysis that attempts to improve the experience of navigating and exploring text and its metadata. The design of the tool was motivated by the unmet need for text analysis tools in the humanities and social sciences. In these fields, it is common for scholars to have hundreds or thousands…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Humanities, Social Studies, Computational Linguistics
Li, Mengyi; Murphy, P. Karen; Firetto, Carla M. – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
Although there is a rich literature on the role of text genre and structure on students' literal comprehension, more research is needed regarding the role of these text features on students' high-level comprehension as evidenced in their small-group discussions. As such, the present study examined the effects of text genre (i.e., narrative and…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Text Structure, Grade 4, Grade 5
García, Nuria Alonso; Caplan, Alison – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2014
While there are a number of important critical pedagogies being proposed in the field of foreign language study, more attention should be given to providing concrete examples of how to apply these ideas in the classroom. This article offers a new approach to the textual analysis of literary classics through the keyword-based methodology originally…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish Literature, Search Strategies, Sociocultural Patterns
Baba, Kyoko; Nitta, Ryo – Language Learning, 2014
This study explored patterns in L2 writing development by focusing on one of the linguistic features of texts (fluency) from a complex dynamic systems perspective. It investigated whether two English-as-a-foreign-language university students would experience discontinuous change (phase transition) in their writing fluency through repetition of a…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Text Structure
Bae, Jungok; Bentler, Peter M.; Lee, Yae-Sheik – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2016
Content is related to other aspects of writing, but exactly how they are related has remained unclear or has not received sufficient critical attention. Consequently, in most writing assessments, content has been treated as just one among several relatively distinct but equal elements. However, in this study, the authors have quantified these…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Content Analysis, Writing Skills, Story Telling
Wijekumar, Kausalai; Meyer, Bonnie J. F.; Lei, Puiwa – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
Reading comprehension in the content areas is a challenge for many middle grade students. Text structure-based instruction has yielded positive outcomes in reading comprehension at all grade levels in small and large studies. The text structure strategy delivered via the web, called Intelligent Tutoring System for the Text Structure Strategy…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Pretests Posttests, Web Based Instruction
Wijekumar, Kausalai; Meyer, Bonnie J. F.; Lei, Puiwa; Cheng, Weiyi; Ji, Xuejun; Joshi, R. M. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2017
Reading and comprehending content area texts require learners to effectively select and encode with hierarchically strategic memory structures in order to combine new information with prior knowledge. Unfortunately, evidence from state and national tests shows that children fail to successfully navigate the reading comprehension challenges they…
Descriptors: Evidence, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Memory, Expository Writing
Shih-Chieh Chien – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of the study is to look at Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' organizational strategy use in English writing at universities in Taiwan. One significant area that has been indicated in contrastive rhetoric studies spins around the notion of culturally constructed organizational patterns. It is claimed that…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Chinese, Universities
Özdemir, Esin; Arslan, Ali – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
This study aims to determine the effect of self-regulated jigsaw IV upon university students' learning a new grammar structure within EFL learning process and also their attitudes towards the English course. The research was carried out with 40 students studying in two different prep classes at Bulent Ecevit University Foreign Languages College in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes, Grammar, Text Structure
McDonald, Peter – The EUROCALL Review, 2014
This research aims to define a sustainable resource in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL). In order for a CALL resource to be sustainable it must work within existing educational curricula. This feature is a necessary prerequisite of sustainability because, despite the potential for educational change that digitalization has offered since…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Cornish, Francis – Language Sciences, 2011
Taking English as the example language, the article begins by presenting a Scale of indexicality characterizing context-bound expression types, ranging from those signalling pure deixis at one pole, to ones expressing pure anaphora at the other. On the basis of this Scale, the article attempts to determine the specific way in which demonstratives…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Text Structure, Expressive Language, Morphology (Languages)
Akhondi, Masoumeh; Malayeri, Faramarz Aziz; Samad, Arshad Abd – Reading Teacher, 2011
Expository text offers particular challenges to the reader because of the abstract and unfamiliar concepts that it presents. In order to solve these problems in reading classes, students should be taught the hierarchical structure of the expository text and the interrelationships among ideas. This is what experts in this field refer to as text…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Text Structure, Expository Writing, Reading Instruction