Laura K. Allen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Laura K. Allen is involved.
Articles
2017 Chapter 5. Five building blocks for comprehension strategy instruction Reading Comprehension in Educational Settings, León, José A. and Inmaculada Escudero (eds.), pp. 125–144 | Chapter
Comprehension is a complex task that is integral to success in academics and the workplace. Unfortunately, it is not a task that comes easily to all students. Hence, an important question faced by educators and researchers is how to most effectively provide students with instruction to improve… read more
2014 Chapter 3.1 A Multi-Dimensional analysis of essay writing: What linguistic features tell us about situational parameters and the effects of language functions on judgments of quality Multi-Dimensional Analysis, 25 years on: A tribute to Douglas Biber, Berber Sardinha, Tony and Marcia Veirano Pinto (eds.), pp. 197–238 | Article
This study applied the Multi-Dimensional analysis used by Biber (1988) to examine the functional parameters of essays. Co-occurrence patterns were identified within an essay corpus (n = 1529) using linguistic indices provided by Coh-Metrix. These patterns were used to identify essay groups that… read more