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Direct linkBerber-Jimenez, Lola; Montelongo, Jose; Hernandez, Anita C.; Herter, Roberta; Hosking, David – Science Teacher, 2008
Unlike the vocabulary used in language arts and social studies, knowledge of expository text (text written to inform) and the language of science are required for reading and writing in science (Carrier 2005). This vocabulary, along with expository text structures, often is not taught in middle and high school classrooms, thus hindering students,…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Second Language Learning, Expository Writing, Sentences
Download full textAndrews, Glenda; Halford, Graeme S.; Prasad, Ashika – 1998
Two experiments investigated the role of capacity in children's comprehension of relative clause sentences. Sentences varied in number of participant roles, focus (object, subject), and embeddedness (center-embedded, right-branching). Center-embeddedness and object-focus were expected to constrain individuals toward assigning more nouns to their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Memory, Primary Education, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedSchleppegrell, Mary J.; Colombi, M. Cecilia – Written Communication, 1997
Compares Spanish and English essays written by bilingual writers. Describes each writer's discourse-organizational and clausal-combining strategies. Suggests that organization on the discourse level is reflected in the type of clausal combinations chosen by the writers at the sentence level. (TB)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, English
