Functional Sentence Perspective, Composition, and Reading'

摘要: In "Linguistic Influences upon the Teaching of Composition: Evidence from our Textbooks,"2 James Duckworth and Joyce MacAllister note that authors many recent composition texts disagree about which portion a sentence in discourse is critical portion. That is, do readers focus on most intently recall accurately? If we knew, could advise students if context syntax allow, no clarity or desired stylistic effects are lost, they should express information wish their to concentrate remember best. would almost certainly be consider newest important. But, as point out, whether such appear early late sentences. This disagreement threatens harm students. Many might often expressing important sentences actually least. Consequently, will probably difficult read recall. Thus identifying valuable for both reading teachers.