Signalling structure in hypertext:
support for the non-native reader

Background
I Text and the non-native reader
Models of reading
The non-native reader
Structures of text
Structures of knowledge
II Hypertext NN reader support
Strategies for NN reader support
Training in text patterns/cues
Training in knowledge structures
Signalling structure in documents
Examples of signal design
A writing structure curriculum
Extension
Sources
App. 1 An unfolding signal curriculum
 

Lawrie Hunter

Kochi University of Technology
lawrie@info.kochi-tech.ac.jp

 

2.6 A writing structure curriculum

 

The author has been creating and teaching a college EFL curriculum for some years now, and an emerging focus in this work has been in three areas:

1. Increasing learner awareness of structure and its signals through listening, speaking and writing tasks.

2. Increasing learner awareness of structure through semantic mapping in reading tasks.

3. Encouraging learner use of semantic mapping for reading, for organizing data, and for the planning of writing.

 

The knowledge structure symbols used in task groups 2. and 3. provide an inroad into signalling knowledge structure in hypertext (see Appendix 1).