Gerdineke van Silfhout

List of John Benjamins publications in which Gerdineke van Silfhout is involved.

Article

van Silfhout, Gerdineke, Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul and Ted J.M. Sanders 2014 Establishing coherence in schoolbook texts: How connectives and layout affect students’ text comprehension Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 3:1, pp. 1–29 | Article

This article focuses on the influence of connectives (because, so) and layout (continuous placement of sentences versus each sentence beginning on a new line) on the quality of students’ mental representations. By using multiple comprehension tasks, we found that cohesive text features have… read more