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A Review of Research in Revising Instructional Text.

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Sawyer, Mary H. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1991

Reviews research in revising instructional text by examining multidisciplinary research in readability, text structure, text interestingness, expert revisers' strategies, and readers' comprehension strategies. Finds that much of this research is limited by a simplistic view of reading, the use of experimentally contrived texts and contexts, and a…

Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Literature Reviews, Readability, Reading Comprehension

Toward Understanding the Effects of Cross-Cultural Schemata and Discourse Structure on Second Language Reading Comprehension.

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Barnitz, John G. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1986

Reviews multidisciplinary research on second culture and second language reading comprehension to support the claim that second language reading is an interactive process, involving the interrelationship of cultural schemata and discourse structure. Argues for the roles of cultural schemata and discourse structure in an interactive model of first…

Descriptors: Cultural Background, Cultural Differences, Interdisciplinary Approach, Literature Reviews