The Influence of the Amount of Text Signals on the Effects of Text Signals
Xian He · Yingyong xinlixue · 2000
The effects of the amount of text signals on the retention of text content were probed into in the experimant.The results showed that participants scored significantly higher in the light signaling than in the heavy signaling and ho signaling in terms of the retention of the target content.There was no significant difference between heavy signaling and no signaling.However,the participants scored significantly higher in the no signaling than in the light signaling and heavy signaling on the aspect of unsignaled content,there was no significant difference between the light signaling and heavy signaling.The hypothesis that readers strategically used text signals to process the discourse and that the trading off effect existed were supported.