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Text structure and its teaching implications: an analytical study
Ala’a Mohammad Abu Hamameh1, Dina Al-Jamal2, Abdallah Baniabdelrahman3.
The way information is organized in a text enables students to read effectively. As such, the current
study content analyzed the first and the second stage secondary English as a foreign language
(EFL) textbooks taught at public schools in Jordan. This descriptive analytical research design was
carried out to explore the means and frequencies of text structure types included in both textbooks
and the extent of fairness in presenting these structures within the reading texts of both textbooks.
The main aim of the study is to provide insights for both EFL teachers and book designers to
expose students to varied types of text structure. A content analysis sheet for coding the material
based on the criterion of inclusion was used. The reading passage was the unit of analysis. The
analysis of the study revealed that the Jordanian secondary stage textbooks include a variety of
text structure types that are not fairly distributed; nevertheless, the descriptive structure was the
most frequent structure in both textbooks. Starting from this premise, the current study discussed
the pedagogical implications of text structure teaching. Accordingly, the study recommends that
book designers should integrate reading texts of varied text structure types without ignoring some
structures in favor of others, also it recommends that EFL teachers should be trained to use text
structure strategy in EFL reading classes.
Affiliation:
- Yarmouk University, Jordan
- Yarmouk University, Jordan
- Yarmouk University, Jordan
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