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Connectives as Processing Signals: How Students Benefit in Processing Narrative and Expository Texts
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Direct linkvan Silfhout, Gerdineke; Evers-Vermeul, Jacqueline; Sanders, Ted – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2015
Many young readers fail to construct a proper mental text representation, often due to a lack of higher-order skills such as making integrative and inferential links. In an eye-tracking experiment among 141 Dutch eighth graders, we tested whether coherence markers (moreover, after, because) improve students' online processing and their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Eye Movements, Grade 8
McCrudden, Matthew T. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate why some individuals who read refutational text demonstrate conceptual change learning, whereas others do not. Middle school students were asked to complete a pretest, read a refutational text while thinking aloud, complete a posttest, and participate in an interview. The data were analyzed in two…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Prior Learning, Reader Text Relationship, Protocol Analysis
