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Influence of Concessive and Causal Conjunctions on Pragmatic Processing: Online Measures from Eye Movements and Self-Paced Reading
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Xu, Xiaodong; Chen, Qingrong; Panther, Klaus-Uwe; Wu, Yicheng – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2018
This study investigates the influence of causal and concessive relations on discourse coherence in Chinese by means of eye movement and self-paced reading techniques. We use the sentential structure like "NP[subscript HUMAN] moved from place A to place B, {because ([Chinese characters omitted] yinwei) /although ([Chinese characters omitted]…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Pacing, Reading Instruction, Comparative Analysis
Discourse Analysis and Writing/Reading Instruction.
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Connor, Ulla Maija – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1990
Reviews research concerning instructional applications of discourse analysis for student reading and writing, including large-scale studies of student writing, text-based studies, reading comprehension, and semantic mapping. A large unannotated bibliography is included. (CB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Discourse Analysis, Language Research, Reading Comprehension
Enriching Basal Reader Lessons with Semantic Webbing.
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Freedman, Glenn; Reynolds, Elizabeth G. – Reading Teacher, 1980
Explains how semantic webbing (a process for constructing visual displays of categories and their relationships) works with a basal reader story and presents some teaching strategies for effective semantic webbing. (HOD)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Diagrams, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education
Research Views: Understanding Meaning in Reading.
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Mosenthal, Peter B. – Reading Teacher, 1987
Notes the problem in reading instruction of teaching children both one-to-one representational meaning of words and world-meaning of words, a distinction that can alter their perception of truth as found in written works. (JC)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Discourse Analysis, Educational Theories, Language Processing
Analysis of Discourse in a TESL Practicum Class.
Johnson, Patricia – 1984
A pilot study of discourse in a practicum reading class for instruction in English as a second language examines miscommunication between non-native English speakers. Teachers and their students read transcripts of episodes from classroom discussions and wrote line-by-line analyses of what they understood was being said. Similarities and…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Context Clues, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
Reading Comprehension at Four Linguistic Levels.
Pennock, Clifford, Ed. – 1979
Focusing on reading comprehension instruction at the word, sentence, paragraph, and larger unit levels, the articles in this volume were drawn from a variety of sources. The three articles in the first section deal with theoretical bases and conceptual concerns. Specific topics covered include the argument for a discourse analysis model, the…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Discourse Analysis
Actes des Journees de Linguistique (Proceedings of the Linguistics Conference) (11th, Quebec, Canada, March 20-21, 1997).
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Caouette, Claudine, Ed.; Larrivee, Pierre, Ed. – 1997
English translations of articles in French in this issue include these: "Discourse Reported in the Print Media"; "Comparison of Register in Quebec and French Speakers"; "Method of Description of Specialized Verbs in View of Machine Translation Applications"; "Dialectal Areas in the Brazilian State of Rio Grande…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Biblical Literature, Braille, Contrastive Linguistics