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Al-Sheikh, Samir – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Being a linguistic phenomenon, poetry is marked by the defamilarization of language in a poetic discourse there is an "aesthetic distortion" of the normal codes, in which the aesthetic value is the most prominent function of the poetic texture . This study is a new adventure in correlating linguistics to aesthetics by and through the…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Language Styles, Poetry, Correlation
Clariana, Roy B.; Rysavy, Monica D.; Taricani, Ellen – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2015
This exploratory quasi-experimental investigation describes the influence of text signals on team visual map artifacts. In two course sections, four-member teams were given one of two print-based text passage versions on the course-related topic "Social influence in groups" downloaded from Wikipedia; this text had two paragraphs, each…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Influences, Teamwork, Maps
Turcotte, Catherine; Berthiaume, Rachel; Caron, Pier-Olivier – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
This study was conducted in the province of Québec, Canada, among French-speaking Grade 6 students (n = 175) in the context of a school curriculum that does not clearly address text structure and main idea instruction. It aims to understand whether these students can identify informative text structures and main ideas in isolated paragraphs,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Text Structure, Grade 6, French
Leong, Alvin Ping; Toh, Audrey Lin Lin; Chin, Soo Fun – Written Communication, 2018
While scholars in the field of writing studies have examined scientific writing from multiple perspectives, interest in its thematic structure has been modest. Recent studies suggest that the themes in scientific writing tend to be anchored on one or a few points of departure. There has also been an attempt at quantification using the…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Journal Articles, Biology, Scientific and Technical Information
Pujiyanti, Indah Afitah; Arsyad, Safnil; Arono – Online Submission, 2018
This study is aimed at investigating the rhetorical structure of Introduction chapters of English master theses written by Indonesian postgraduate students and identifying the frequency of communicative moves and their constituent steps as well as finding how the students justify their research projects reported in their Introduction chapters. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Masters Theses, English (Second Language)
Hsiao, Cheng-Hua – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2020
MA students often find writing the discussion section of a thesis (hereafter discussion writing) a difficult task (Bitchener & Basturkmen, 2006). Thesis advisors, research writing instructors, and graduate students are able to recognize the strength and weakness of discussion writing through established levels of quality. Therefore, grading…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Theses, Writing (Composition), Discussion
Mauricio, Michael C.; Genuino, Cecilia F. – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2020
Integration of technology which includes the use of a smartphone is currently one of the trends in ESL writing classes. Particularly in collaborative activities, it is assumed that the use of smartphones contributes to the attitude of the learners towards writing and their writing performance as well. Consequently, the present study investigated…
Descriptors: Writing Achievement, Writing Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Frid, Bailey; Friesen, Deanna C. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
Reading comprehension performance is predicted by decoding skill and linguistic comprehension (e.g., Hoover & Gough, 1990; Joshi & Aaron, 2012; Scarborough, 2001). However, the type of strategies that readers recruit to build a discourse should also contribute to success in first and second language reading comprehension. Sixty-six French…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, French, Immersion Programs
Braasch, Jason L. G.; Bråten, Ivar – Educational Psychologist, 2017
Despite the importance of source attention and evaluation for learning from texts, little is known about the particular conditions that encourage sourcing during reading. In this article, basic assumptions of the discrepancy-induced source comprehension (D-ISC) model are presented, which describes the moment-by-moment cognitive processes that…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Cognitive Processes, Models, Text Structure
Olin-Scheller, Christina; Tengberg, Michael – Language and Education, 2017
Taking Swedish secondary school students as a point of departure, this article focuses on aspects of teaching and learning critical literacy and specifically on what students identify as argumentative text structure. Challenges connected to teaching critical literacies can be considered quite big, since studies show that students have difficulties…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Literacy, Secondary School Students, Metacognition
Xu, Zhihong; Wijekumar, Kausalai; Lin, Shuqiong; Yang, Xinyuan; Nan, Bo – Reading Psychology, 2022
The difficulties with developing high-order reading comprehension skills negatively impact academic success across fields. The current study investigated whether the text structure strategy instruction, delivered through the Intelligent Tutoring of Structure Strategy (ITSS) to adult English learners as a foreign language (EFL), can improve reading…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Suvorov, Ruslan; Gruba, Paul – Language Learning & Technology, 2023
Grounded in the three-tiered transdisciplinary SLA framework of the Douglas Fir Group (2016), we explore how the concept of 'semiotic resources' may be integrated into CALL activity designs. Starting at the macro level, we discuss how language ideology may influence where to situate semiotic resources within initial design considerations. We next…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Jackie E. Relyea; Dennis Davis; Corrie Dobis; Becky Huang; Courtney Samuelson – Journal of Educational Research, 2025
This study evaluated the feasibility of the Knowledge, Language, and Inquiry (K.L.I.) intervention, designed to support Grades 3-5 multilingual students classified as English learners (ML-ELs) in building content knowledge, language skills, and reading comprehension through inquiry-based small-group instruction. Feasibility was examined across…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Cushing, Ian – English in Education, 2020
This paper explores the application of texture and textual attractors within a cognitive stylistic pedagogy for English teachers. Texture, defined as the feeling of building and experiencing a fictional world, is here taken up as a facilitative way of thinking about how reading, language, experience and cognition operate in the classroom. On the…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Teaching Methods, Grammar, Schemata (Cognition)
Asghar, Zobina Muhammad; Mahmood, Muhammad Asim; Asghar, Samina Ali – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This paper studies the generic move structure of the blurbs of Electronic Socio-romantic novels published in Pakistan. It explores the move schema, the number of moves and their order in different blurbs. It also observes the most focused and the most neglected move in these blurbs. 20 book blurbs have been collected from online source and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Novels, Electronic Publishing, Text Structure