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Download full textIzquierdo, Merce; Marquez, Conxita; Gouvea, Guaracira – Science Education International, 2008
The present study relates to a research line in didactics of science that focuses on the function that sign systems or semiotic modes have in communicative interactions in science classrooms. The study was conducted by 20 secondary and university science teachers who belong to the same research group LIEC ("Language and Science…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Science Education, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation
Peer reviewedSchumm, Jeanne Shay; And Others – Reading Research and Instruction, 1991
Determines the extent to which postsecondary reading textbooks provide an awareness of and strategies for the use of both considerate and inconsiderate text features in the reading of content area textbooks. Analyses 46 postsecondary developmental reading textbooks. Finds that substantially more strategies in these texts concern considerate text…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Postsecondary Education, Reading Materials, Remedial Reading
Linek, Wayne M.; Harkins, Donna M. – 1997
A pilot study examined to what degree answers that students supply on basal reader workbook pages are integrated with understanding the words in the story or with understanding the story itself. The sample consisted of 27 workbook pages from 5 fourth-grade basal reading programs with a 1989 copyright date. Two simple content analyses were applied…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Content Analysis, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedGoodman, Kenneth; And Others – New Advocate, 1994
Suggests picture books are made more difficult for kids to predict, to make sense of, and to learn from by fitting them into the didactic framework of basals. Discusses the picture book genre. Compares the original version of "Ira Sleeps Over" to the basal version. Examines in detail how picture books are made to fit into a basal…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Content Analysis, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials
van Rooyen, H. – 1990
A study investigated the disparity between the English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) competence of South African black children and the competence required to comprehend content subject textbooks. Two ESL schemes and two fifth-year general science textbooks were analyzed for differences in vocabulary, syntax, speech acts, cohesion and coherence.…
Descriptors: Black Students, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Content Analysis
