Exploring the Differences between College Students’ Think-Aloud Responses for Narrative and Expository Texts

EasyChair Preprint 3825

Abstract

Previous think-aloud research with children found differences in online processing between expository and narrative texts (e.g., Karlson et al., 2018). We sought to extend these findings to adult readers. We compared responses generated by college students during think-aloud tasks. Our adult readers showed similar differences between text genre as found by previous studies with children. With expository texts, readers produced more associations, metacognitions, and text connections. With narratives, readers produced more valid elaborations and predictions.

Keyphrases: expository text comprehension, narrative text comprehension, online comprehension processes

@booklet{EasyChair:3825,
  author    = {Heather Ness-Maddox and Amanda Dahl and Erin Reynolds and Sarah E. Carlson and Ben Seipel and Virginia Clinton and Mark Davison},
  title     = {Exploring the Differences between College Students’ Think-Aloud Responses for Narrative and Expository Texts},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 3825},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2020}}