Tijdschrift voor Taalbeheersing - Volume 45, Issue 2/3, 2023

Abstract This study explores knowledge and self-efficacy beliefs about and skills of students from secondary education concerning writing paragraphs. Students in secondary school have to learn how to write coherent paragraphs because coherence within a text contributes to its comprehensibility. To this end four paragraph toolboxes for two genres (informative e-mails and persuasive texts) were developed, both Read More

Abstract Concreteness of texts: concreteness scores and a measuring tool Experimental research into the effects of concreteness on comprehensibility, interestingness and persuasiveness of texts is often carried out by comparing versions of texts that differ in terms of concreteness. However, in previous studies concreteness has been manipulated in various ways, making it difficult to compare the expe Read More

Abstract What role can communication play in solving big societal issues? Communication has served humanity well. It thus makes sense that communication is perceived as a promising instrument for bringing about changes in human behavior that are necessary to solve major problems facing the world. However, to change behavior related to climate change, health, or the environment will require changing deeply held Read More