[bianca]

Hi

Some ideas:

First off, remember that reading comprehension is a multifaceted process (ranging from simple recall to interpretations of text, analyses of concepts, and applications in new contexts. Also, consider some factors that affect comprehension.)

Secondly:

1. examine how text's organization affects reading comprehension of students (i.e., identifying main topics, significant supporting information, and relations between a text's main topics).


2. A difficult one: you may want to examine the role of coherence and cohesion in text comprehension, compare the results with human judgement.

3. or: what is needed to produce a cohesive/coherent text, and why? Here come my ideas:


A text has texture and this is what distinguishes it from something that is not a text… The texture is provided by the cohesive relation through the use of cohesive ties, which bind a text together.


Bear in mind that formal cohesion is hardly sufficient to guarantee identification as a text. Underlying semantic relations - or semantic roles, filled by constituents of a sentence - rather than particular cohesive markers actually have the cohesive power. Also cohesion is dependent on register, i.e. appropriateness depends on the context of situation.

bianca