Text Comprehension And Learning - 9789026512834

CRC Press

This book deals with the significance of different text structures and its cognitive processing in learning from texts. It discusses the effect of learning abilities and attitudes for learning from texts, and focuses on the significance of processing and learning strategies for text comprehension. > This book deals with the significance of different text structures and its cognitive processing in learning from texts. It discusses the effect of learning abilities and attitudes for learning from texts, and focuses on the significance of processing and learning strategies for text comprehension. > Introduction 1. Text comprehension and learning from text: An introduction Part I: Text Structures 2. Expository text and propositional text processing 3. Important information in expository prose: The role of awareness of textual structure and of the skill in ranking ideas in a text 4. Hypermedia and knowledge acquisition from non-linear expository text 5. Text comprehension and typograz