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Thanh T. G. Trinh; Kees de Bot; Marjolijn Verspoor – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
This longitudinal case study from a Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) perspective touches upon an under-researched issue: L1 development over the lifespan. Levinson (1978) predicts three stages in adulthood: early, mid and late, with a decline in late adulthood. We examine Diane Larsen-Freeman's publications over a period of 50 years (from age…
Descriptors: Authors, Writing Skills, Longitudinal Studies, Lifelong Learning
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Afzal, Malik Haroon; Pakri, Mohamad Rashidi Mohd; Abdullah, Nurul Farhana Low – Journal of Practical Studies in Education, 2020
The buoyant shift from form and structure to the fluid constructs of meaning turned discernible in Jacques Derrida's "Deconstruction." Meaning or reality that had so long been enjoying a fixed and definite status was worn out with the advent of the theory of deconstruction. The turnaround of what was considered real or true became…
Descriptors: Novels, Fiction, Foreign Countries, Text Structure
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Butler, Whitney Sommers; Hord, Casey; Watts-Taffe, Susan – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
In spite of the prevailing assumption that formal reading instruction is no longer needed once adolescents reach high school, students at the secondary level still benefit from explicit reading instruction to continue developing advanced literacy skills enabling them to access complex narrative texts. This article argues for the importance of…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Students with Disabilities
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Smith, Shelby L.; Ward, Richard T.; Allen, Laura K.; Wormwood, Jolie B.; Mills, Caitlin – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2022
In today's society, we are constantly absorbing information via text (e.g., news, social media), much of which may be affectively charged. However, to date, little is known about how the affective framing of the text itself may give rise to various affective experiences "during" reading. We examined how subtle changes to wording…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Affective Behavior, Correlation, Language Usage
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Montazeri, Ebtesam Abbasi; Jalilifar, Alireza; Hita, Jorge Arus – Language Awareness, 2023
Research on academic stance and evaluation has been prolific over the past few decades. Few studies, however, have focused on exploring the evaluative potential of that-constructions in shaping the structure of academic arguments. To address this lacuna, the current study aimed at exploring the potential impact of the distinct communicative…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Usage, Phrase Structure, Persuasive Discourse
Khalid Alghamdi – ProQuest LLC, 2023
A growing body of academic writing literature has been devoted to studying the rhetorical patterns and language use in diverse academic texts. One of the central goals of these studies is to demystify these texts to acquaint writers, particularly less experienced ones, with the genre conventions. However, Teaching Philosophy Statements (TPS) as a…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Philosophy, Content Analysis, Text Structure
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Shi Pu; Hao Xu – Language and Education, 2024
While research on postgraduate thesis writing has investigated how students cope with institutional assessment criteria, this study explores how students form their own criteria for self-assessment through the writing process, aiming to account for the development of their independent thinking in academic socialisation. Based on in-depth…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Theses, Writing (Composition), Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Kazuki Sekine; Manaka Ikuta – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2024
Emojis have become a ubiquitous part of everyday text communication worldwide. Cohn et al. (Cognit Res Princ Implic 4(1):1-18, 2019) studied the grammatical structure of emoji usage among English speakers and found a correlation between the sequence of emojis used and English word order, tending towards an subject-verb-object (SVO) sequence.…
Descriptors: Grammar, Coding, Text Structure, Japanese
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Bingbing Yan; Chixiang Ma; Mingfei Wang; Ana Isabel Molina – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2024
With the emergence of short video and the development of mobile internet, short video software, such as TikTok and Kwai, has emerged. Based on the semantic understanding technology of teaching short videos, a teaching management platform was built to push healthy and positive short video for students' content in a targeted way. Taking the 21st…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Semantics, Visual Aids, Data
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Forrin, Noah D.; Mills, Caitlin; D'Mello, Sidney K.; Risko, Evan F.; Smilek, Daniel; Seli, Paul – Journal of Experimental Education, 2021
The prevalence of the acronym tl;dr ("too long; didn't read") suggests that people intentionally disengage their attention from long sections of text. We studied this real-world phenomenon in an educational context by measuring rates of intentional and unintentional mind-wandering while undergraduate student participants (n = 80) read…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Reading Processes, Attention, Text Structure
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Seger, Benedikt T.; Wannagat, Wienke; Nieding, Gerhild – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
According to the tripartite model of text representation (van Dijk & Kintsch, 1983), readers form representations of the text surface and textbase, and construct a situation model. In this study, an experiment was conducted to investigate whether these levels of representation would be affected by adding illustrations to narrative text and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Illustrations, Children, Early Adolescents
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Aldosari, Bushra; Was, Christopher – Educational Research: Theory and Practice, 2021
Text structure (e.g., left-to-right orientation) can bias later task performance by supporting scanning strategies on related tasks (e.g., scanning left-to-right when learning word pairs). The current study was designed to investigate how the reading habits of native Arabic speakers might affect the acquisition of English vocabulary in word lists.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Text Structure, English (Second Language), Semitic Languages
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Rayon, Leo D., Jr. – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
The increasing interest that the phenomenon of suicide gained across research disciplines has stimulated diverse research perspectives on how to examine the language of suicide embedded in suicide notes to characterize the consistent and prevalent linguistic structures and attitudes of suicide-attempters and completers. This study aimed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Suicide, Letters (Correspondence), Language Usage
Wan Jusoh, Wan Nur Aida Sakinah; Abdul Jobar, Norfaizah; Md Yusoff, Md Zahril Nizam – Online Submission, 2022
This literature review looked at relevant research articles published in reputable journals from 2018 to 2022 to try to shed light on the areas: (1) Implications of using thematic progression pattern to improve the coherence and unity of student essays; and (2) The effects of thematic problems using the thematic progression approach in the…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing Improvement, Writing (Composition), Writing Evaluation
Butterfuss, Reese; Kim, Jasmine; Kendeou, Panayiota – Grantee Submission, 2020
The aim of this article is twofold. First, it provides a general overview of reading compre­hension by outlining classic models of single-text comprehension and more recent models of multiple-text comprehension and sourcing during reading comprehension. Second, the article highlights important sources of individual differences in reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Models, Information Sources, Individual Differences
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