مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - A TEXT STUCTURE PATTERN: PROBLEM SOLUTION STRUCTURE ON UNIVERSAL WORLD PROBLEMS

Abstract :

Text structure knowledge of a reader provides a framework for recalling information from the text and comprehending the text and writer as well throughout the writing process. In this study, problem solution text strucure was developed and an appropriate text was written as the reflection of this structure in order to inform students about universal world problems which are included in the science and social studies textbooks and reference books used by the fourth and fifth grade elemantary school students. To develop the structure; a) The content of the universal world problem in the science and social studies textbook was examined, b) The information collected from the contents was sequenced by using the framework of theme analysis, c) the structure elements were named in order to represent each group of information, d) episodes of each element were put into parts to form a text. The texts were written in accordance with the structure. Appropriate semantic and syntactic signals were used in the text. The composed structure and the text were offered to the textbook writers as a framework for writing their texts and develop students’ awareness about the structure of the texts written about the universal world problems.