This comprehensive review of literature includes research studies dating from 1980 to 2005 on expository text structure awareness as well as studies on the effectiveness of expository text structure instruction. The purpose of this literature review is two-fold: 1) To determine the extent to which students’ expository text structure awareness facilitates reading comprehension; and 2) Whether it...

A COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF INFORMATION STRUCTURE USING PARALLEL EXPOSITORY TEXTS IN ENGLISH AND JAPANESE Nobo N. Komagata Supervisor: Dr. Mark J. Steedman This thesis concerns the notion of ‘information structure’: informally, organization of information in an utterance with respect to the context. Information structure has been recognized as a critical element in a number of computer applicat...

Abstract The use of texts is an indispensable resource for students’ learning, especially in science domains. While developing understanding a specific topic usually the main goal reading expository texts, important consideration how to best measure whether this has been reached. In study, we aimed analyze gains comprehension based on three chemistry and physics topics. By means pre–post design...

In the present study, we tested a computer-based procedure for assessing very concise summaries (50 words long) of two types of text (narrative and expository) using latent semantic analysis (LSA) in comparison with the judgments of four human experts. LSA was used to estimate semantic similarity using six different methods: four holistic (summary-text, summary-summaries, summary-expert summari...

With regard to the relationship between the use of modality and readability levels oftexts, 2 opposing views have been raised. The first view endorses direct positiverelationship between modality and readability in the sense that the use of modalityincreases textual understandability. The second view is that the use of modality leadsto an increase in the number of words, resulting in readabilit...

Argument maps as schematic representations of arguments and their logical and evidential relationships are effective diagrams for instruction in education as well as in L2 development. However, their use for teaching L2 writing in EFL contexts has not been adequately studied. Therefore, this study investigated the effect of argument mapping instruction on Iranian EFL learners’ writing achieveme...

The research is entitled Reference in Narrative Texts. Writer investigates hypothesis focused on reference usage.  as a part of cohesive devices grammatical cohesion, and narrative mode genre text. developed distribution frequency device. objectives this are to analyze describe (1) entities or piece informations appear refer the same referent; (2) indicator genre; (3) accurance links within t...