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Wu, Shu-hua; Alrabah, Sulaiman – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
This classroom-based study was conducted in Kuwait to investigate the impact of text structure strategy (TSS) instruction on the ways in which 54 English as a foreign language (EFL) college students approached expository and medical texts. Data collection involved two surveys, fieldnotes, class observations, and group interviews. A system of codes…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
Turcotte, Catherine; Caron, Pier-Olivier – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2020
This study conducted with French-speaking students living near Montréal, Canada, assess if teaching the shared knowledge between reading and writing of informative texts improves reading comprehension in fourth grade (9-10 years old) to a greater extent than teaching that separates reading and writing. Teachers participating in the experiment…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction, Reading Writing Relationship, Reading Comprehension
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 Macorís 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
Saadatnia, Mahmood; Ketabi, Saeed; Tavakoli, Mansoor – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between text structure and two levels of reading comprehension, namely literal and inferential, in Iranian EFL learners. Studies have generally found that learners perform differently after they have read different text structures (Amiri et al. in "Proc Soc Behav Sci"…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Text Structure
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
Nippold, Marilyn A., Ed.; Scott, Cheryl M., Ed. – Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009
School success in the 21st century requires proficiency with expository discourse--the use and understanding of informative language in spoken and written modalities. This occurs, for example, when high school students read their textbooks and listen to their teachers' lectures, and later are asked to demonstrate their knowledge of this complex…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Text Structure, Intervention
Chien, Shih-Chieh – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2007
The present study aims to explore the role of Chinese EFL learners' rhetorical strategy use in relation to their achievement in English writing in Taiwan. It has been argued that traditional Chinese text structures (indirect style) continue to influence the contemporary English writing of Chinese students in expository writing text. The manner of…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Foreign Countries, Role Perception, Text Structure

Cornish, Francis – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1992
An approach to teaching and testing advanced French reading comprehension of expository social science texts is presented within a "communicative-cognitive" framework. Learners receive instructions that encourage them to perceive and use the writer's overall rhetorical scheme as a conceptual-functional framework for integrating the components.…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Expository Writing, Foreign Countries, French
Tickoo, Asha – World Englishes, 2005
The paper examines two basic modes of text building, first proposed by Sinclair 1994. It argues that these textbuilding means are not just different, but are, rather, operational opposites. It suggests that this difference means that ESL learners who first acquire one mode of text building are, by this means, also equipped with the wherewithal to…
Descriptors: Norms, Text Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning

Calfee, Robert; Chambliss, Marilyn – Annals of Dyslexia, 1988
The paper discusses (1) sources of difficulty in comprehending technical writing, (2) distinctions between content structure and text structure, (3) building blocks for expository writing and techniques of text design, (4) contrasts between American and Japanese science and social studies texts, and (5) suggestions for promoting comprehension.…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Foreign Countries