Textual Pattern Analysis of Argumentative Texts in English Reading Class;

In accordance with the schema theory, the paper then sketches a design for text-type oriented teaching in CE class, and suggests that the recognition of text types and the construction of their structural schemata facilitate students ability in decoding as well as re-coding texts in CE cl.

The current study attempts to investigate whether task characteristics including item types, item difficulty and text types affect the reading test-taking strategy use by the Chinese senior high school students who sit for the National Matriculation English Test (NMET).

Both rhetorical genre studies and text structure theory are for the purpose of analyzing the structural patterns of written monologues.

The discourse representation theory holds that the indefinite noun phrases themselves do not have quantified feature, they only introduce a free variable.