Why Do We Need Evaluation Devices Anyway?

Shen, Yeshayahu

doi:10.1007/1-4020-7911-7_11

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“…Or else they may create a particularly entertaining and interesting story or an impressively original and illuminating discussion. In narratives, this is achieved by metacognitive evaluative interpretation and/or explicit reference to the point of the story and its communicative function of amusing, instructing or impressing (Labov, 1972;Reinhart, 1995 ;Shen, 2004). In expository texts, this involves explicit marking of logical relations between discourse segments or explicit meta-textual commentary (Scinto, 1986 ;Camps & Milian, 2000 ;Katzenberger, 2004).…”

Section: Global Structure and Contentmentioning

confidence: 99%

The psycholinguistics of developing text construction

2008

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This paper outlines functionally motivated quantifiable criteria for characterizing different facets of discourse--global-level principles, categories of referential content, clause-linking complex syntax, local linguistic expression and overall discourse stance--in relation to the variables of development, genre and modality. Concern is with later, school-age language development, in the conviction that the long developmental route of language acquisition can profitably be examined in the context of extended discourse. Findings are reviewed from a cross-linguistic project that elicited narrative and expository texts in both speech and writing at four age groups: (9-10 years, 12-13, 16-17 and adults). Clear developmental patterns emerge from middle childhood to adulthood, with significant shifts in adolescence; global-level text organization is mastered earlier in narratives than in expository essays, but the latter promote more advanced use of local-level lexicon and syntax; and spoken texts are more spread out than their denser written counterparts in clause-linkage, referential content and lexical usage. These and other findings are discussed in terms of the growth and reorganization of knowledge about types of discourse and text-embedded language use.

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Section: Global Structure and Contentmentioning

confidence: 99%