Text Comprehension And Learning

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Introduction
Text comprehension and learning from text: An introduction	p. 9
Text Structures
Expository text and propositional text processing	p. 19
Important information in expository prose: The role of awareness of textual structure and of the skill in ranking ideas in a text	p. 35
Hypermedia and knowledge acquisition from non-linear expository text	p. 53
Text comprehension and typographical features of elementary school text books	p. 71
A procedure for the design of illustrated texts	p. 85
Learner Abilities and Attitudes
Pragmatic knowledge in expository text comprehension: A recall study with young readers	p. 107
Comprehension of story content in adolescents: Influences of age and cognitive competence	p. 125
Affect, reading behaviour and reading achievement	p. 137
Processing and Learning Strategies
Uncertainty in text comprehension: Clues and effects	p. 153
The development and the usage of some particular cognitive strategies concerning text processing in physics and in history	p. 169
Teaching active text processing strategies: Some experimental results	p. 183
The influence of an educator's interactive style on the process of comprehension in preschool-age children	p. 201
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