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Direct linkShears, Connie; Chiarello, Christine – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2004
Although knowledge-based inferences (Graesser, Singer, & Trabasso, 1994) depend on general knowledge, there may be differences across knowledge areas in how they support these processes. This study explored processing differences between 2 areas of knowledge (physical cause?effect vs. goals and planning) to establish (a) that each would support…
Descriptors: Inferences, Knowledge Level, Neurological Impairments, Comparative Analysis
Arfe, Barbara; Boscolo, Pietro – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
This study investigates the causal coherence of deaf students' written narratives and the relation between students' use of causal structures in narrative writing and their linguistic skills. The written narratives of 17 deaf high school students were compared with those of 2 groups of hearing writers: 17 high school students and 16 second…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Syntax, Rhetoric, Personal Narratives
