33.1402, Books: Vivid educational texts: Sangers

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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 09:55:21
From: Tessa Arneri [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Vivid educational texts: Sangers

 


Title: Vivid educational texts 
Subtitle: Engaging students via narrative and voice elements 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/vivid-educational-texts 


Author: Nina Sangers

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460934032 Pages: 253 Price: Europe EURO 33


Abstract:

Educational textbooks play an essential role in the transfer of knowledge in
present-day Dutch primary and secondary education. It is not self-evident,
however, that students understand these textbooks; many Dutch students find
their educational texts too difficult to understand and/or consider them
boring. Given that text comprehension is the result of complex interactions
between reader, task, and text characteristics, its optimization can be
approached in more than one way. This dissertation focuses on two text
characteristics that have been argued to make educational texts more vivid,
thereby enhancing students’ engagement and text comprehension: the presence of
narrative and voice elements.

The aim of this dissertation is to 1) define narrative and voice elements
within the educational domain (what), 2) describe their application in current
Dutch educational textbooks (how), and 3) find out the rationales behind the
use of these elements (why). These three aspects are investigated using a
variety of research methods, including corpus-based analyses, focus groups
with educational publishers, and a reading experiment. This dissertation
contributes to our understanding of vividness-increasing strategies in
educational texts, and lays the foundation for solid future empirical research
into the effectiveness of narrative and voice elements in the educational
domain.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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