Introducing Young Children to Expository Texts through Nonverbal Graphic Representations

Using graphic organizers to attain relational knowledge from expository text.

Many students with learning disabilities (LD) experience difficulties with extracting relationships from expository text, especially if they are implicit. Results from studies with K-12 participants have been inconclusive regarding the potency of the graphic organizer (GO) as a comprehension tool. This study attempted to address some of the concerns with GO research by examining the effects of ...

Running head: EXPOSITORY DISCOURSE IN YOUNG SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN 1 Expository language skills of young school-aged children

Identifying Information Structure in Expository Texts

Identification of ‘information structure’ (organization of information within an utterance) is crucial for processing contextually-appropriate linguistic forms in many NLP systems. This paper presents a theory and a procedure to identify information structure in expository texts in English, and also an evaluation method that is used to validate the results of the identification process for real...

Contribution of Reading Skill to Learning from Expository Texts

Our study investigated the importance of reader aptitudes (prior knowledge and reading skill) in the processing of an expository text. We analyzed self-explanations produced by 42 high-school students while reading an expository text about thunderstorms. Specifically, we focused on students attempts to paraphrase information (i.e., restate sentences in their own words) and elaborate on the sent...

Texplore - Exploring Expository Texts Via Hierarchical Representation

Exploring expository texts presents an interesting and important challenge. They are read routinely and extensively in the form of online newspapers, web-based articles, reports, technical and academic papers. We present a system, called Texplore, which assists readers in exploring the content of expository texts. The system provides two mechanisms for text exploration, an expandable outline th...