附註:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Preface; 1 Introduction to the Psychology of Science Text Comprehension; 2 Toward a Functional Analysis of Scientific Genres: Implications for Understanding and Learning Processes; 3 The Characteristics of Well-Designed Science Textbooks; 4 Visual Imagery in School Science Texts; 5 Generating and Understanding Qualitative Explanations; 6 Comprehension and Memory of Science Texts: Inferential Processes and the Construction of a Mental Representation; 7 Understanding Causality and Temporal Sequence in Scientific Discourse.
摘要:This volumes presents contemporay research and theories of scientific text comprehension. The enterprise of textbook design needs to be effectively integrated with research in discourse processing, educational technology and cognitive science. This book promotes such an integration.
