Decreasing cognitive load for novice EFL learners: Effects of question and descriptive advance organizers in facilitating EFL learners' comprehension of an animation-based content lesson

System

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 416-431

  Lin, Huifen ^a   Chen, Tsuiping ^a  

^a KUN SHAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Advance organizers; Animation; Cognitive load; Computer based instruction; Content based instruction; English as a Foreign Language instruction; Reading comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748205448     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2006.04.008     Document Type: Article

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