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Moradi, Sholeh; Ghahari, Shima; Abbas Nejad, Mohammad – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
Cognitive organizers (COs) are text aids which represent objects, concepts, and their relations by the use of symbols and spatial arrangements without adding to semantic content. The present study examines language learners' text comprehension through outlines, a popular CO, compared with text-only condition, and further investigates the effect of…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Tavarez, Pedro J.; Gomez, Jorge; Mercedes, Arismendy – Online Submission, 2016
The objective of this research is to determine the competences of students of Basic Spanish Language II (Let. 012) in the comprehension of the superstructure and macrostructure of expository texts, in two college Campuses; the UASD San Francisco de MacorĂ­s Campus, and the UASD Bonao Campus for the semester 2015-2. The theory is based on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Competence, Reading Comprehension
Gagnon, Renee; Ziarko, Helene – Online Submission, 2012
This paper presents the results of a predicative analysis led on comparison and problem-solution texts produced by pupils of the second and third grades of primary school following a set of reading and writing instructional activities. The production of those texts is of a special challenge to the young writers because of the cognitive and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Foreign Countries, Expository Writing, Reading Instruction
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Wolfe, Michael B. W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
The author examined memory for text in terms of the independent influences of semantic knowledge associations and text organization. Semantic associations were operationalized as the semantic relatedness between individual text concepts and the text as a whole and assessed with latent semantic analysis. The author assessed text organization by…
Descriptors: Semantics, Recall (Psychology), Language Styles, Familiarity