This study examined the establishment of coherence relations by Persian EFL learners in their reading of stories. 201 undergraduate EFL learners read narrative passages and selected appropriate coherence elements of different types necessary for the proper construction of meaning. The results demonstrated a consistent pattern of a text-specific hierarchy for the comprehension of conjunctive rel...

We present here VISUSYN, a prototype we developed in order to study meaning construction. This software implements the model of dynamic construction of meaning proposed by Victorri and Fuchs (1996). It allows a semantic visualization that can be used to compute the meaning of a lexical unit in a given context

The meaning of symbol is open, based on which the learner can gradually establish his or her own symbol library and develop the capability of meaning construction. Relying on "linguistic symbol" and "non-linguistic symbol" -based symbol literacy improvement, medium literacy and cultural literacy education and training, multiple intelligence education, course ontology research, etc., we can impr...

The meaning and interpretational effects of the the... the... construction (the comparative correlative) in English have often been ill-described. This paper examines some plausible-sounding but unwarranted semantico-pragmatic aspects that have explicitly or implicitly been suggested in the literature: (i) the construction only involves two scales, (ii) the truth of the more... the more... inva...