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Connectives as Processing Signals: How Students Benefit in Processing Narrative and Expository Texts
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Direct linkvan Silfhout, Gerdineke; Evers-Vermeul, Jacqueline; Sanders, Ted – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2015
Many young readers fail to construct a proper mental text representation, often due to a lack of higher-order skills such as making integrative and inferential links. In an eye-tracking experiment among 141 Dutch eighth graders, we tested whether coherence markers (moreover, after, because) improve students' online processing and their off-line…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Eye Movements, Grade 8
Download full textKorkmaz, Hunkar – Online Submission, 2011
The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine how stories about science and scientists, presented over a 5 week period, influence grade eight students' images of biological science and scientists. The study included 151 students for pretreatment and 121 students for post treatment, with age range 14-15 years from an urban area. Data sources…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Scientists, Imagery, Qualitative Research
