The conclusion of the study is that translation can be an effective tool to evaluate reading comprehension of the organizational structure of a text. Marsha Bensoussan taught English at the University of Haifa in Israel at the time of the publication of the article. Facilitating ESL reading by teaching text structure. We may well conjecture that similar cultural factors apply to an expository text, and there is no reason to suppose that they need work the same way as for narratives. The thread of discourse .
Teachers can teach students how to read different types of texts by looking at their structure.
Facilitating ESL reading by teaching text structure. This article presents information gathered from a study whose purpose was to find out whether teaching text structure to ESL students in reading courses has positive outcomes in reading comprehension. First, the author reports and discusses various studies that researchers have conducted in the past to find out the role of schemata in reading comprehension of narrative and expository texts. In particular, she discusses studies that involved teaching the students how to approach texts based on their structure. Second, the author reports the results of a study that she conducted to find out whether teachers can facilitate ESL reading comprehension by teaching text structure.