Conference paper

1. Conference Paper
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE RHETORICALLY COMPETENT?
Emilio Sánchez
Héctor Garcia-Rodicio
Ricardo García
A. Carlos Ferreira D.
Andrea Bustos
Conference: Twenty-third Annual Meeting of the Society of Text and Discourse.
At Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
ABSTRACT
Expository texts include signals that can enhance comprehension if readers
recognize and interpret them. Relative to written signals, spoken signals are
more expressive and explicit which may help readers in recognizing and
interpreting the signals. Middle-school students read a text including either
written or spoken signals and wrote a summary. Participants in the spoken
condition performed better. We interpreted that written signals require specific
knowledge to readers, different from that involved in listening comprehension.