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Goldman, Susan R.; Murray, John D. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1992
In 3 experiments, a total of 48 native English speaking and 55 English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) college students chose alternatives to replace missing logical connectors in expository passages. Differences in meaning and use of the four connector types and implications for improving ESL programing are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), College Students, English (Second Language), Expository Writing
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Bernard, Robert M. – Instructional Science, 1990
Describes a study of junior college students that examined the interrelationship of structural cueing and graphic organizers, two prose processing adjuncts intended to convey the presence and nature of structure in text to learners with high, middle, and low level reading skills. Treatment of the experimental and control groups is explained, and…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Analysis of Variance, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Graphic Organizers
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Grabinger, R. Scott – Educational Technology, Research and Development, 1993
Describes two studies that compared university students' judgments about the readability and studyability of two sets of computer screens: a set of model displays and a set of real screens copied from computer-assisted instruction programs. Relationships among viewers' preferences and field dependence/independence, conceptual style, and gender…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Design Requirements
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Spires, Hiller A.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Education, 1992
Effects of schema-based cues (previewing) and structure-based cues (structure cueing) on comprehension of expository prose were studied with 74 fourth graders. Results indicate a significant pattern of higher performance by the previewing group, in comparison with the structure-cued group and a control group. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Control Groups, Cues, Elementary School Students
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Pennington, Martha C. – Language and Education, 1993
A case is made against the use of computer-assisted text analysis, including style analyzers and grammar checkers, with nonproficient second-language or basic-skills student writers. The inaccuracy of analysis, limited feedback, and type of revision behavior encouraged are cited. (33 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Evaluation, Feedback, Grammar
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Jamieson, Marguerite; Kajs, Rebecca; Agee, Anne – Computers and the Humanities, 1996
Illustrates techniques to foster transformative learning in computer-assisted literature classes: (1) a lesson plan on John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"; (2) a plan to analyze "Oedipus Rex" using the "Daedalus" Interactive Writing Environment; and (3) a demonstration of how students engage in "meta-reflection" as they explore…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Educational Technology, English Instruction
Rogers, Sandra H. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2004
Writing research has long attempted to define and assess coherence in written prose; however the researchers have often ignored or inadequately met the needs of writing students who require a simple definition of coherence that they can use to revise their own prose. One exception is Joseph Williams, author of "Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity…
Descriptors: Writing Research, Correlation, Foreign Countries, Prose
Sharp, Alastair – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2004
Reading and understanding a text presents a variety of processing problems for L2 learners. The organizational pattern of a text has been considered by some researchers to have an important influence in this process. This article describes an experimental study of a group of Hong Kong schoolchildren and presents evidence that learners reading in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods, Reading Processes
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Cahill, David – Written Communication, 2003
Contrastive rhetoric scholarship researches rhetorical structures across languages to predict the difficulties experienced by students learning to write essays in a second language. The paradigmatic contrast is between Western languages (e.g., English) that are said to exemplify "linearity" and "directness" and Eastern languages (e.g., Chinese,…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Rhetorical Theory, Rhetorical Invention, Contrastive Linguistics
Armstrong, James O. – 1993
One way that teachers can assist students to learn from their textbooks is through the use of verbal-spatial representations of text structure. This report offers teachers and teacher educators information about learning to make idea maps for instructional use with elementary science texts. Idea maps, which are verbal-spatial representations of…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Graphic Organizers
Australian Education Council, Canberra. – 1994
One of a series of documents produced by a collaborative curriculum development project in Australia, this book is designed to assist in the improvement of teaching and learning English and to provide a common language for reporting student achievement. The book begins with a chart presenting curricular outcomes. The book is then divided into…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides
Armstrong, James O.; Armbruster, Bonnie B. – 1991
Visual representations of the main ideas of information text (frames) help middle-grade students learn from reading. A study investigated frame development by middle-grade teachers. Twenty-seven teachers worked alone and collaboratively to frame experimental passages that had been selected from content area textbooks in social studies and science.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Content Area Reading, Instructional Materials, Intermediate Grades
Clausing, Carolyn S.; Schmitt, Dorren Rafael – 1989
This study investigated the differences in the reading rate of eighth grade students on a cloze reading exercise involving the reading of text from a computer monitor. Several different modes of presentation were used in order to determine the effect of prior experience with computers on the students' reading rate. Subjects were 240 eighth grade…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cloze Procedure, Computer Assisted Instruction, Correlation
Maria, Katherine; Johnson, Joanne Mons – 1989
A study investigated whether presenting scientific information about seasonal change in a narrative which is also a refutation text will promote learning of the information more than presenting it in an expository text which is either a considerate refutation text or an inconsiderate non-refutation text. Subjects, 123 seventh grade students and…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Content Area Reading, Gifted, Grade 5
McCutchen, Deborah; Dibble, Emily – 1990
A study investigated the role of phonemic (sound-based) information during silent reading to determine whether the visual tongue-twister effect occurs only when readers make judgments of sentence acceptability or whether the visual tongue-twister effect is due to the way sentences are represented in memory. Data were collected from 45 university…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cues, Distinctive Features (Language), Higher Education
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