In two studies we investigated whether concept mapping or summary writing better support students while learning from authentic problems in the field of business. We interpret concept mapping and summary writing as elaboration tools aiming at helping students to understand new information, and to integrate it with prior knowledge. We hypothesize concept mapping to be superior to summary writing...

The effect of using a structured reading framework on middle school students' conceptual understanding within the science writing heuristic approach. 1 ABSTRACT This study was designed to investigate the impact of using a Structured Reading Framework within the Science Writing Heuristic approach on a summary writing task, and how this framework is related to the development of students' concept...

Despite the increased use of integrated tasks in high-stakes academic writing assessment, research on rating criteria which reflect unique construct summary skills is comparatively rare. Using a mixed-method approach expert judgement, text analysis, and statistical this study examines features that discriminate summaries produced by 150 candidates at five levels proficiency reading-writing (R-W...

The study aimed at investigating whether the retention of vocabulary acquired incidentally is dependent upon the amount of task-induced involvement. Immediate and delayed retention of twenty unfamiliar words was examined in three learning tasks( listening comprehension + group discussion, listening comprehension + dictionary checking + summary writing in L1, and listening comprehension + dictio...

The present study aimed to explore how multimedia annotation and writing summary influence the level of reading comprehension. Annotation is based on the theoretical framework of attention, which maintains that attention is critical in the acquisition process of an L2 (Robinson, 1995; Schmidt, 1995, 2001). In fact, several studies (Bowles, 2004; Chun & Plass, 1996; Jones, 2004; Jones & Plass, 2...