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Teaching discourse-structure awareness
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Discourse-awareness
Reading Comprehension
"Instruction designed to teach students to recognize the underlying structure of text improves comprehension"
Williams (cited in Grabe, 2009)
discourse-awareness
Signaling of discourse structure in texts
Use of graphic organizers for rethorical structure
Teach comprehension-strategy instruction
direct instruction of text signaling
- Explanation of types of discourse structure and top-level structure.
- Identification of discourse signals and transition markers.
- Examination of headings, subheadings, paragraphing, visuals, sentence-initial phrases and subject nouns (theme identification).
- Identification of main ideas.
- Circle anaphoric signals and find their antecedents.
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graphic organizers and discourse structure
- Use of semantic maps, anticipation guides, concept maps, tree diagrams and hierarchical summaries.
- Research shows contradictory evidence so far.
- Strong evidence has been found with the use of graphic organizers for representing the main ideas and that reflect patterns of discourse organization in the text.
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comprehension-strategy instruction
- Identifying main ideas
- Establishing text purpose
- Summarizing
- Predicting
- Forming questions
- Generating discussions
- Connecting information from all the text
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references
Grabe, W. (2009) Reading in a second language. Moving from theory to practice. New York: Cambridge University Press.