In this study, the attention–selection–organization–integration–monitoring (ASOIM) model, revised from Mayer’s [Mayer, R. E. (1996). Learning strategies for making sense out of expository text: The SOI model for guiding three cognitive processes in knowledge construction. Educational Psychology Review, 8, 357–371] SOI model of text comprehension, was used as a foundation to design a multi-strat...

The identification of new versus given information within a text has been frequently investigated by researchers of language and discourse. Despite theoretical advances, an accurate computational method for assessing the degree to which a text contains new versus given information has not previously been implemented. This study discusses a variety of computational new/given systems and analyzes...

The quality of writing instruction is the primary determinant acquisition. Revising and feedback are crucial aspects process. In this study, genre-specific strategy was used as part revision to develop text structure content different types in fourth grade. study also examined whether effect differed based on genre students' gender. Thirty first final drafts opinion, expository, argumentative t...

Task difficulty across different macro-genres continues to remain among less attended areas in second language development studies. This study examined the correlation between task difficulty across the descriptive, narrative, argumentative, and expository macro-genres. The three components of task difficulty (i.e., code complexity, cognitive complexity, and communicative stress) were also comp...

The field of discourse processing has dissected many of the levels of representation that are constructed when individuals read or listen to connected discourse. These levels include the surface code, the propositional textbase, the referential situation model, the communication context, and the discourse genre. Discourse psychologists have developed models that specify how these levels are men...

We studied the effect of adjunct displays on recall in an expository text (based on McCrudden, Schraw, Lehman, & Poliquin, 2007) in order to find out which means of display aided pupils in the last years of secondary school to recall information. We included four conditions in the experiment: text only, text and causal diagram, text and images and causal diagram only. Participants were checked ...

This article investigates a reading skill content in English textbook used at state senior high school from the point of view its variety, exploitability, suitability, length text, readability, and authenticity texts. A representation theory was to explore key issue textbook. multimodal discourse analysis is applied, more specifically through verbal visual texts within The results reveal that t...

Argument maps as schematic representations of arguments and their logical and evidential relationships are effective diagrams for instruction in education as well as in L2 development. However, their use for teaching L2 writing in EFL contexts has not been adequately studied. Therefore, this study investigated the effect of argument mapping instruction on Iranian EFL learners’ writing achieveme...

During the last three decades, especially 1980's, language learning specialists have been busy  discovering the nature of language learning strategies, describing them, and formulating their relationships with other language learning factors. In line with these studies, the field of translation studies has undergone a complete revolution in terms of its perspective toward its research prioritie...