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Download full textAnneli Dyrvold; Judy Ribeck Nyström – Designs for Learning, 2025
Understanding subject-specific texts requires interpreting representations--words, symbols, and images--in their intended senses. Many such representations are ambiguous, with meanings that shift depending on context and disciplinary conventions. This applies not only to words, for example, 'paper' in everyday versus academic usage, but also to…
Descriptors: Models, Reading Comprehension, Ambiguity (Semantics), Textbooks
