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Ahmadi, Alireza – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2011
This study investigated the effect of the title and ambiguity tolerance on the comprehensibility of a non-text. To this end, ten irrelevant sentences from different texts were put together to make two seemingly cohesive and coherent texts. The two texts were exactly the same except for the fact that one of them carried a title whereas the other…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Figurative Language, English (Second Language)
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Jaramillo Urrutia, Lorena; Medina Gutiérrez, Ana Stella – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2011
Today it is necessary to approach environmental topics with students in an interdisciplinary manner to mitigate the environmental damages that the Earth is suffering. In this paper we report an action-research and innovation study aimed at sensitizing students with respect to the care and preservation of the environment through the writing of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Conservation (Environment), Student Motivation, Knowledge Level