this study compared 2 main approaches to readability assessment. thequantitative approach applied idea density based on part of speech tagging andcompared 3 sets of text types (i.e., narrative, expository, and argumentative) withrespect to their ease of reading. the qualitative approach was done throughdeveloping questionnaires measuring intermediate efl learners’ perceptions oncontent, motivat...

Theoretical Background This study takes part in a series of studies that analyze bridging inferences within expository films. According to Graesser, León and Otero (2002) bridging inferences establish coherence which is necessary to establish a coherent mental model. In other words: If a coherence break (CB) occurs the reader needs to solve the CB by generating a bridging inference in order to ...

Identification of ‘information structure’ (organization of information within an utterance) is crucial for processing contextually-appropriate linguistic forms in many NLP systems. This paper presents a theory and a procedure to identify information structure in expository texts in English, and also an evaluation method that is used to validate the results of the identification process for real...

Exploring expository texts presents an interesting and important challenge. They are read routinely and extensively in the form of online newspapers, web-based articles, reports, technical and academic papers. We present a system, called Texplore, which assists readers in exploring the content of expository texts. The system provides two mechanisms for text exploration, an expandable outline th...

BACKGROUND Research on the presentation of information in narrative versus expository text genres is inconclusive with respect to the question of which is more beneficial for student learning. AIMS We examine the effect of presenting factual content in either narrative or expository genres on student learning. We also consider relevant prior knowledge and working memory capacity (WMC) as pote...

Many people experience illusions of understanding for explanations of scientific phenomena (Rozenbleit & Keil, 2002) and readers tend to be poor at gauging how well they have understood what they have read in expository science texts (Dunlosky & Lipko, 2007; Maki, 1998; Thiede, Griffin, Wiley, & Redford, 2009). The present line of research includes studies demonstrating that metacomprehension a...

This paper describes TextTiling, an algorithm for partitioning expository texts into coherent multi-paragraph discourse units which re ect the subtopic structure of the texts. The algorithm uses domain-independent lexical frequency and distribution information to recognize the interactions of multiple simultaneous themes. Two fully-implemented versions of the algorithmare described and shown to...

This paper describes TextTiling, an algorithm for partitioning expository texts into coherent multi-paragraph discourse units which reeect the subtopic structure of the texts. The algorithm uses domain-independent lexical frequency and distribution information to recognize the interactions of multiple simultaneous themes. Two fully-implemented versions of the algorithm are described and shown t...