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Donahue, Tiane – Written Communication, 2008
Text analysis traditions in France and the United States include discourse analysis, critical linguistics, French functional linguistics, Bakhtinian dialogics, and "generous reading." These frames have not been used, however, in cross-cultural analysis of university student writing. The author presents a study of 250 student texts from…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Methods
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Ludovic Le Bigot; Jean-François Rouet – Journal of Literacy Research, 2007
This study investigated the impact of prior knowledge, writing task, and hypertext format on university students' comprehension of multisource hypertext. Fifty-two students categorized as having high or low prior knowledge studied hypertext consisting of seven component texts on the topic of social influence. Some students were given a summary…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Prior Learning, Writing Assignments, Hypermedia
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Papadima-Sophocleous, Salomi, Ed.; Bradley, Linda, Ed.; Thouësny, Sylvie, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2016
The 23rd EUROCALL conference was held in Cyprus from the 24th to the 27th of August 2016. The theme of the conference this year was "CALL Communities and Culture." It offered a unique opportunity to hear from real-world CALL practitioners on how they practice CALL in their communities, and how the CALL culture has developed in local and…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Potter, Lee Ann; Schamel, Wynell – Social Education, 2000
Focuses on a telegram sent from Hanoi, Vietnam, by Ho Chi Minh through the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) station in Kunming, China, to President Truman in which Ho asked for support of Vietnam's independence from France. Provides background information, a reproduction of the telegram, and ideas for teaching activities. (CMK)
Descriptors: Colonialism, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Historical Interpretation
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Pouit, Delphine; Golder, Caroline – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2002
The aim of this study was to show how general models of text production can account for argumentative text planning. It focuses in particular on retrieval process in 11- to 18-year-old children. Various experimental situations were designed to promote different ways of retrieving ideas from long-term memory. Essays written by students were…
Descriptors: Long Term Memory, Essays, Information Retrieval, Persuasive Discourse
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Rothwell, Jennifer; Levy, Tedd; Manaster, Jane; Bernson, Mary Hammond – Social Education, 1998
Presents a pull-out section that includes four brief articles and accompanying learning activities. The articles include an architectural examination of the move from medieval fort to Renaissance palace, interdisciplinary biographical writing assignments, a look at the portrayal of people with disabilities in juvenile literature, and material on…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Asian Studies, Buildings, Built Environment