expository text
collocation in Englishmeaningsofexpositoryandtext
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expository
adjective
uk/ɪkˈspɒz.ɪ.tər.i/us/ɪkˈspɑː.zə.tɔːr.i/
formal
explaining or ...
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text
noun
uk/tekst/us/tekst/
the written words in a book, magazine, etc., not ...
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Strategies and predilections in readingexpositorytext: the importance of text patterns.
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They were so rare in our data-base (occurring only in an occasional adultexpositorytext) that they are not considered further in the present analysis.
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Understandingexpositorytext: building mental structures to induce insights.
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Understandingexpositorytext: building mental structure to induce insights.
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In this study, 36 participants read anexpositorytextdescribing 4 rare illnesses from a given perspective.
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What do readers need to learn in order to process coherence relations in narrative andexpositorytext?
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Furthermore, it only looked at the comprehension of a singleexpositorytextabout which the readers in general had limited background knowledge.
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But the resulting noun phrase construction is then placed at the service ofexpositorytext.
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The administration and scoring procedure were the same as for theexpositorytext.
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In the reading lesson, students learn the attributes of fine literature, the structure of narrative andexpositorytext, fluency, listening and reading comprehension.
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Figure 3 compares the relative amount of two different dimensions of modality out of all the modal expressions analysed for the expository texts.
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Summing across the three school-age groups, the expository texts produced by children have around four times more non-personal constructions than their narrative counterparts.
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However, these distinctions are quite extreme with the younger subjects, whose narrative and expository texts tend to contrast almost dichotomously, along the following lines.
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Testing anaphoric resolution is a useful way of assessing the processing units that readers use when reading expository texts.
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The second experiment is on a set of three narrative and four expository texts.
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Rhetorical moves and noun phrase complexity in written expository texts.
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But across all age groups, expository texts are nominally denser than narratives, and hence more complex linguistically and informatively richer.
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There were two expository texts and two narrative texts.
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Second, we evaluate the parsers on narrative and expository texts to study their performance across the two genres.
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