Intertextual Strategies in Multiple Text Comprehension

• In Event: What We Read and How We Understand: Text Structure, Comprehension, and Spatial Reasoning

Abstract

Inter-textual strategies have been studied in multiple text comprehension, but rarely when illustrated text is used. We present results from analyses of think-alouds and representation switches (e.g., from one text to another page's diagram) using complementary text sets on the COVID19 virus with undergraduate biology students. Inter-textual switches help integrative comprehension when they are followed by high-level strategy use or inferences.

Authors

• Jennifer G. Cromley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Andrea J. Kunze, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Esther G Whang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign