III   This study was an attempt to determine the effect of task-based approach vs. traditional approach on the narrative and expository writing of the Iranian EFL learners. There were two control groups as well as two experimental ones in the current study. In the two control groups namely G1 and G2 narrative and expository writing were taught respectively using the traditiona...

The ability to apply various reading skills is an important prerequisite comprehend expository texts commonly found in history textbooks, but it unclear which specific contribute students’ historical content knowledge and reasoning abilities. This study used a digital learning environment (DLE) measure support lower secondary subject-specific skills, explored the relationships with ability. Res...

I describe a system, Txt2ids, that uses a series of regular expressions to extract suggestions for ontology identifier names from English text and classify them as (i) class names, (ii) individual names, (iii) object property names, or (iv) data property names. As well as being of practical use as a tool in an ontology authoring system, it also functions as a theoretical model of the syntactic ...

Existing systems to acquire knowledge from expository texts do not perform any learning beyond interpreting the contents of the text. The opportunity to learn from examples included in texts is not exploited. This is a needless limitation because examples in texts usually show the reader how to integrate the declarative part of the text into an operational concept or procedure. Explanation-base...

There are many obstacles in learning to write expository texts vocational high schools. This happens because teachers still use conventional strategies. The researcher used a qualitative descriptive method of classroom action research (CAR). results the exposition text writing test first cycle showed an average value 79.25 and second 83.22. From these results, it can be seen that increase stude...

This study attempts to identify the varieties of deixis (according Levinson's theory) employed and major types used by EFL secondary school students in expository texts. qualitative research as a method documentary technique for analysis. The analysis's conclusion demonstrates that Students schools use every sort writing text. is mostly discourse deixis, which 158 times, second followed person ...

The readers' ability to integrate current information with given information has been considered as an important component of reading comprehension process. One aspect of this integration process involves anaphoric resolution. The purpose of this study is to investigate the process of anaphoric resolution, focusing on inferential rigidity of different types of anaphoric ties. Ninety EFL learner...

Abstract Background Previous research has shown that teachers hold misconceptions about multimedia learning (e.g., instruction needs to be adapted students' styles), which may at odds with evidence‐based teaching. Objectives Refutation texts are a classical method reduce and thus stimulate conceptual change. We wanted know whether making use of computer algorithm personalize refutation would be...

BACKGROUND Traditionally most health education materials are written in an expository non-narrative format. Scholars have argued that the effectiveness of materials may increase when these texts are replaced by narrative texts, and that the non-narrative texts should be replaced by narrative texts. However, no previous studies have tested these claims in the context of school health education f...