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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Text Structure"”.
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Text structure-aware classification
… are used in many NLP applications, such as text classification and sentiment analysis. These representations ignore relations across different sentences in a text and disregard the underlying structure of documents. In this work, we present a method for text classification that takes into …
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Enhancing Students' Science Content Knowledge Through Text Structure Awareness
… study was to examine the effects of teaching text structure as a tool to assist first grade students' understanding of science content in a unit of study on plants. A quantitative analysis was performed to reveal any difference in mean post-test scores between a control group and a treatment …
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Analysis of newspaper editorials: A study of argumentative text structure
Text types have become one major area of investigation in research into academic writing and written text in general. Attempts have been made to characterize types of texts such as argumentative, expository, and narrative on the basis of their structural and linguistic features. This study explores …
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Teaching Text Structure to Elementary Students: A Comparison of Two Methods Across Four Genres
… the teaching of writing: (1) providing specific text structures, and (2) having students themselves develop a text structure that they think is most appropriate for the given situation. The two methods were compared among four genres: the personal narrative, the directive-expository, the …
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Scientific text structure awareness: A cross-cultural comparison of tertiary students from different language backgrounds
… language reading has shown that awareness of text structure, or rhetorical organisation is related to superior recall of main ideas from expository prose passages. The present study investigates awareness of scientific text structure among tertiary students from different language backgrounds. …
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The use of text structure among EFL Thai students and its effects on their reading comprehension
… and learning, this study investigated the use of text structure among EFL Thai students and its effects on their reading comprehension. It was designed with an underlying assumption that readers who possess the previously acquired knowledge of the organizational patterns of text will be aware of …
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A typological model for text-structure processing : implications for the pedagogy of teaching with reference to translation (Arabic-English)
… «good» at the level of sentenceformation and context free semantics of English, but who are «poor» when it comes to appropriately structuringinformation as texts.In an attempt to help such a student population, in thefirst instance, achieve a textual competence and find somepedagogical …
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The Effects of Graphic Organizers and Content Familiarity on Second Graders' Comprehension of Cause/Effect Text
The ability to comprehend expository text is vital for academic and professional success; however, many students struggle with this genre. While it has been found that text structure-based graphic organizers (GOs) may assist older students in comprehending expository text, it is uncertain whether …
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The effects of four different text structures on the retellings of fourth and sixth grade students
… to analyze the influence of different expository text structures on fourth and sixth grade students' written retellings. Although previous research has shown that text structure can assist in understanding and recalling text, little work has been done with the use of different expository text …
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Analytic and constructive processes in the comprehension of text
… between a reader and the information in a text. The review begins by discussing the difference between educational and psychological perspectives on comprehension. Approaches to the analysis of text structure are then described and models and theories of the representation of knowledge are …
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Structure and access : the role of structural factors in text comprehension and information
… the access, comprehension, and recall of textual information, especially when the content of the material is unfamiliar to the reader. A study was made of the effects of manipulating text structure, familiarity of subjects with the text type, familiarity with the content, and instructions …
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Classic Literature and Struggling Readers in Middle School Grades Five through Eight
… classic literature. Results suggest that text structure including organization and use of graphics complicate comprehension. Language features such as conventionality, vocabulary, sentence structure, and meaning complicate reading. The results also suggest that knowledge demands such as …
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Cross disciplinary effects of text factors and language of recall on reading comprehension
… that draw on Schema Theory, including in the context of foreign/second language reading, to date no study has provided a complete understanding of both the main and the interaction effects of text structure and a rhetorically-oriented framework, both of which are identified as text factors that …
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An investigation of discourse prosody in naturally occuring read text
… read or prepared monologue. Two types of read text; news broadcasts and a short story were analysed to ascertain whether findings in the literature were generalisable across text types. The prosodic transcriptions of the texts were used to identi& the onset syllables. The corresponding …
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A Secondary English Teacher's Use of New Literacies with Voice and Struggling Writers
… that further attention is needed with respect to text structure development, writing pedagogy, and voice in writing; teachers' response to students' writing in digital environments; and motivation and adolescent writing.
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The impact of teacher and peer dialogue on online collaborative writing in an authentic science literacy learning environment
… authenticity relate to (i) how close to the text-structure of a prototypical library report genre are collaboratively-written student papers (i.e., how close to the model students were taught) (ii) to what extent do the papers use the language of science as expected at this level of …
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An Analysis of the Discourse Function of Saulteaux/mi-/ As Exemplified In A Traditional Cote First Nation Teaching Text
… of the discourse particle /mi-/ in Saulteaux text structure. Following an introduction to the main thesis topic, a cross-dialectal survey of this discourse particle in Ojibwe, both its morphosyntactic form and word order, sets the background for a discussion of the form, function and …
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The Second Amendment and the Constitutional Right to Self-Defense
This dissertation analyzes the contextual background, drafting history, text, original understanding, interpretive evolution, and contemporary judicial application of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. The dissertation develops the argument that as originally understood, the …
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The Effect of Intersentential Constraints on Cloze Test Performance on Expository and Narrative Material
… to assess the effect of order of the sentences, structure of the text, prior knowledge, and age/maturity level on the cloze performance of students. The subjects in this study were fourth grade students, seventh grade students, and adults enrolled in university classes. These subjects were given …
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A comparison of three selected study strategies on the dimensions of effectiveness and efficiency
… in this study designed to compare three text study strategies for their relative effectiveness (comprehension), efficiency (time), and level of awareness (confidence). The three study strategies of 1) Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review (SQ3R), 2) Question, Read, Recite (QRR) with …
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