Laura K. Allen

List of John Benjamins publications for which Laura K. Allen plays a role.

Articles

Allen, Laura K. and Danielle S. McNamara 2017 Chapter 5. Five building blocks for comprehension strategy instructionReading Comprehension in Educational Settings, León, José A. and Inmaculada Escudero (eds.), pp. 125–144 | Chapter
Comprehension is a complex task that is integral to success in academics and the workplace. Unfortunately, it is not a task that comes easily to all students. Hence, an important question faced by educators and researchers is how to most effectively provide students with instruction to improve… read more
This study applied the Multi-Dimensional analysis used by Biber (1988) to examine the functional parameters of essays. Co-occurrence patterns were identified within an essay corpus (n = 1529) using linguistic indices provided by Coh-Metrix. These patterns were used to identify essay groups that… read more