PURPOSE The purpose of this article is to describe the nature of informational (expository) language in terms of unique grammatical characteristics and discuss applications for assessment and intervention for older school-age children and adolescents with language impairments. METHODS Information presented is based on a selected literature review of topics including the nature of academic tex...

The quality of writing instruction is the primary determinant acquisition. Revising and feedback are crucial aspects process. In this study, genre-specific strategy was used as part revision to develop text structure content different types in fourth grade. study also examined whether effect differed based on genre students' gender. Thirty first final drafts opinion, expository, argumentative t...

This article focuses on the ability to use linguistic forms in ways that are appropriate to the constraints of genre (expository discourse) and modality (writing and speech) in the course of monologic text production, as an ability whose development spans many years and requires considerable experience and schooling. The use of the French subject clitic on is examined in written and spoken expo...

This article investigates a reading skill content in English textbook used at state senior high school from the point of view its variety, exploitability, suitability, length text, readability, and authenticity texts. A representation theory was to explore key issue textbook. multimodal discourse analysis is applied, more specifically through verbal visual texts within The results reveal that t...