Effects of Text Structure on Elaborative Inference Generation during Reading
Guo Shu · Yingyong xinlixue · 2002
This research examined the effect of text structure on the elaborative inference.Three formats of reading text was used in the experiment.They were well\|organized,normal,and ill\|organized formats.Participants were asked to complete a test after reading the text with one of the formats.In the first experiment,participants were asked to indicate the truth of the test items.In the second experiment,participants had to recognize whether the test items had been studied in the text.The results showed that well\|organized format of the text enhanced the use of both near\|rich inference and far\|strict inference.