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Cheng, Rong – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study was to determine whether teaching students about the structure of a text would be associated with improved reading comprehension. Science texts were used with the intention of adding to what is known about content-area reading comprehension. To investigate the effects of teaching science text structure, a reading…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Text Structure, Content Area Reading, Reading Comprehension
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Jackie E. Relyea; Dennis S. Davis; Corrie Dobis; Becky Huang; Courtney Samuelson – Grantee Submission, 2025
This study evaluated the feasibility of the Knowledge, Language, and Inquiry (K.L.I.) intervention, designed to support Grades 3-5 multilingual students classified as English learners (ML-ELs) in building content knowledge, language skills, and reading comprehension through inquiry-based small-group instruction. Feasibility was examined across…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Elementary School Students
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Nurhayati, Dwi Astuti; Djatmika – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2020
The article discusses the quality of language exploitation performed by the students of the English Language Study Program in the City of Tulungagung in writing English text stories. The data was collected for 4 months, starting May up to August 2020 in IAIN Tulungagung campus in the sense of data collection, through the observation. This study…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Strategies, Literary Genres, English (Second Language)
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Wu, Shu-hua; Alrabah, Sulaiman – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
This classroom-based study was conducted in Kuwait to investigate the impact of text structure strategy (TSS) instruction on the ways in which 54 English as a foreign language (EFL) college students approached expository and medical texts. Data collection involved two surveys, fieldnotes, class observations, and group interviews. A system of codes…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
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Vögelin, Cristina; Jansen, Thorben; Keller, Stefan D.; Machts, Nils; Möller, Jens – Cogent Education, 2020
Assessing student writing is a complex task and experimental studies have shown that textual determinants, such as spelling or vocabulary, affect teachers' judgments of other analytic criteria in student essays. Among these elements, organisation has not been extensively explored. This experimental study examines how organisational quality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction
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Bogaerds-Hazenberg, Suzanne T. M.; Evers-Vermeul, Jacqueline; van den Bergh, Huub – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
In the Netherlands, the quality of the reading curriculum is currently under debate because of disappointing results on national and international assessments of students' reading skills and motivation. In a mixed-method study, we analyzed the content of Dutch textbooks for reading comprehension instruction (i.e., the implemented curriculum) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Textbook Content, Grade 4
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Yuan, Rongjie – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2022
Material development is important for training beginner student interpreters, as it guides the direction of interpreting learning. One key principle is difficulty progression, which requires a good knowledge of the indicators of difficulty. Since text structure outweighs words and sentences in the information processing of consecutive…
Descriptors: Translation, Oral Language, Language Processing, Memory
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Fauzan, Umar – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2018
This study examines the ideology and rhetorical patterns of "MetroTV" news when reporting on the "Lapindo" Mudflow tragedy that started in "Sidoarjo", Indonesia in 2012. The ideology used to represent facts and opinions on the tragedy were evaluated using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The source of the data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, News Reporting, Television, Ideology
Rosario, Ryan Robert – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Text classification typically performs best with large training sets, but short texts are very common on the World Wide Web. Can we use resampling and data augmentation to construct larger texts using similar terms? Several current methods exist for working with short text that rely on using external data and contexts, or workarounds. Our focus is…
Descriptors: Classification, Models, Semantics, Electronic Publishing
Sharp, Rebecca Reynolds – ProQuest LLC, 2017
We address the challenging task of "computational natural language inference," by which we mean bridging two or more natural language texts while also providing an explanation of how they are connected. In the context of question answering (i.e., finding short answers to natural language questions), this inference connects the question…
Descriptors: Computation, Natural Language Processing, Inferences, Questioning Techniques
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de Brusa, Maria Fernanda Poveda; Harutyunyan, Liliya – English Language Teaching, 2019
Higher education focuses on promoting the training of autonomous, critical professionals who adapt to the ever-more demanding labor market. To achieve these objectives, it is necessary to rethink teaching practices in order to allow the student to be the main actor and modeler for their learning process. Previous studies based on Vygotsky's…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Writing Evaluation, Essays, Academic Language
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Liso, Vincenzo – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2020
The organization of knowledge influences how effectively students learn, so that if the information is well structured and the knowledge acquisition process is carried out in a systemic way, one can more effectively retrieve pieces of knowledge. To tackle this problem a common document format used in academia, IMRaD (Introduction, Method, Results,…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Teaching Methods, Problem Based Learning, Undergraduate Students
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Kaya, Fatma; Yagiz, Oktay – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
This study aims to make a comparison between research article abstracts written by two groups in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT) by Turkish scholars and non-Turkish scholars working in Anglophone countries to find the rhetorical structure they employ in their abstracts. To achieve this purpose, 390 research article abstracts, 195…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Researchers
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Dostal, Hannah M.; Robinson, Richard – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2018
Mathematical literacy includes learning to read and write different types of mathematical texts as part of purposeful mathematical meaning making. Thus in this article, we describe how learning to read and write mathematical texts (proof text, algorithmic text, algebraic/symbolic text, and visual text) supports the development of students'…
Descriptors: Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Skills, Content Area Writing, Numeracy
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Hawamdeh, Mohammad Amin – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
This study aims at exploring new norms as to the textual additions in parentheses (=TAiPs) in the translation of a Quranic text as writer-oriented devices of textuality. Coding for this sort of information could be useful in establishing an impact on any decision-making process on the TL version; such TAiPs can give a translated text of the Quran…
Descriptors: Islam, Translation, Decision Making, Semitic Languages
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