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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"text structures"”.
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Effects of Teaching Reading Through Discussion of Text Structures.
… of teaching reading through discussion of text structures on students' reading comprehension. The design of the study was a Pretest-Posttest Control-Group Design. One hundred twenty-six sophomore and senior Thai college students majoring in English and attending afternoon English classes …
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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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A Quasi-Experimental Study on the Impact of Explicit Instruction of Science Text Structures on Eighth-Grade English Learners' and Non-English Learners' Content Learning and Reading Comprehension in Three Inclusive Science Classrooms
… of science comparison and contrast macro text structures plus micro text structures on the content learning, sentence comprehension, and reading comprehension of eighth-grade English Learners (ELs) and non-English Learners (non-ELs) in three inclusive science classrooms. Although the …
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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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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 …