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Pontecorvo, Clotilde; Zucchermaglio, Cristina – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1989
Examines beginning readers' story dictation processes and products over a 16-month period. Investigates level of story structure, conventional expressions, internal responses, spatial-temporal setting, verb tenses, variety of tenses, connectives, anaphora, and dictation process adapting to a scribe. Finds overall development in ability to…
Descriptors: Dictation, Early Reading, Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries

Garner, Ruth; Gillingham, Mark G. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1987
Examines students reported and demonstrated knowledge of three structural properties of text: topic relatedness, superordination, and cohesion. Reports students are only moderately knowledgeable about topic relatedness and superordination, and unknowledgeable about cohesion. (RS)
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Grade 5, Grade 7, Intermediate Grades

Mauranen, Anna – English for Specific Purposes, 1993
A contrastive textlinguistic study of rhetorical differences between texts written by academics with different cultural backgrounds is described. The results indicate that Anglo-American writers use more metatext or text about text than Finnish writers, suggesting a more reader-oriented attitude among Anglo-American writers. (27 references)…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Differences, Economics, English

Ornstein, Allan C. – Peabody Journal of Education, 1994
Examines advantages and disadvantages of using textbooks as the basis for curriculum and instruction, discussing textbooks as the predominant instructional medium. The article describes attributes of good textbooks and text structures, identifies strategies for improving readers' text comprehension, and notes teachers' role as facilitators in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Readability, Reader Text Relationship

Molto, Mavis; Svenonius, Elaine – Information Processing and Management, 1991
Study results indicate that it is feasible to develop automatic name recognition algorithms to distinguish character strings representing names from other character strings occurring in English language titles. This finding offers cautious promise for alleviating some of the labor intensive work of cataloging. (16 references) (Author/SD)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Cataloging, Computer System Design, Expert Systems

Rossi, Jean Pierre – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990
One hundred French children in grade five participated in an experiment to determine how the problem frame facilitates comprehension of a problem solution text. Results demonstrate the positive role of frames in macrostructure construction and support the model of T. A. van Dijk and W. Kintsch (1983). (SLD)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades

Berent, Gerald P. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1993
College students with prelingual deafness were assessed on their knowledge of English syntax at the beginning and end of the academic year. Results revealed significant improvement on nine English structures assessed; students with lower general English proficiency improved to a greater extent than other students. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: College Students, Congenital Impairments, Deafness, Higher Education

Kelly, Anthony E. – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 1993
Describes the design and exploratory use of an interactive hypertext program, SKEIM (Shell for Knowledge Engineering, Instruction, and Measurement), that was developed to record university students' review strategies of a set of lecture notes. Topics discussed include domain experts; navigation; text display guidelines; and the relationship of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development, Courseware
Aspillaga, Macarena – Journal of Computer-Based Instruction, 1991
Describes a study of undergraduates that examined the effects on retention of the screen location of information displayed in computer-assisted instruction (CAI) for Spanish. Three treatment groups are described: (1) text was relevant to graphical information; (2) text was at the upper middle section of the screen; and (3) text was random. (32…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Higher Education, Hypothesis Testing

Otlowski, Marcus – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 1998
Explains how the writing process approach utilizing hypermedia software can help non-native speakers develop an awareness of English-language composition structures. Discusses the pedagogical basis for the writing process, as well as the benefits computers and specialized software can bring to the language classroom. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, English (Second Language), Hypermedia

Lock, Graham; Lockhart, Charles – Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1998
Identifies and describes the genres that a group of tertiary level English-as-a-Second-Language students produced during a process writing class in which they were free to decide their own topics, purposes, and audiences. Characteristics of these genres, the relationships among them, and their schematic structures are described. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), English for Academic Purposes, Foreign Countries

David, Prabu – Human Communication Research, 1998
Investigates four experiments on whether the addition of a representative picture to a news item improves recall of that item by undergraduate students in journalism courses. Finds that it does; that concrete news items were recalled better than abstract news items; and news concreteness was strongly correlated with various picture attributes,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Journalism Research, Mass Media Use, News Reporting

Sinatra, Richard C. – Clearing House, 2000
Describes a method content teachers in the middle and upper grades can use to teach their traditional content topics with a focus on the content information, the content's organizational plan, and strategies to help students "deep process" the content. Describes the three-stage implementation. Notes evidence that applying and practicing the…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement

Shaw, Jonathan – System, 1995
This paper presents preliminary results from classroom-initiated research using text-graphing to develop metacognitive awareness among English-as-a-Second-Language engineering students writing the literature review section of their master's theses. Results found that text graphing can raise students' awareness of the rhetorical structure of…
Descriptors: Engineering, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Graduate Students
Majerus, Steve; Van der Linden; Martial; Mulder, Ludivine; Meulemans, Thierry; Peters, Frederic – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
The nonword phonotactic frequency effect in verbal short-term memory (STM) is characterized by superior recall for nonwords containing familiar as opposed to less familiar phoneme associations. This effect is supposed to reflect the intervention of phonological long-term memory (LTM) in STM. However the lexical or sublexical nature of this LTM…
Descriptors: Phonology, Long Term Memory, Short Term Memory, Language Processing