Table 2.
Materials analysis: overview of declarative knowledge results
| Unit of analysis | Yes | % | Example | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goals | Among general objectives | 1 | Students learn the purpose, structure, and lay-out of many types of texts | |
| Declarative lesson goals | 5 | 19 | You know the purposes of advertising | |
| Theory | Explicit review of all strategies (≥ 4) | 5 | 13 | You learn to apply all six key strategies |
| Text structure | 3 | 10 | There are fixed structures, like question–answer, cause-effect, then-now | |
| Signaling words | 6 | 13 | ‘So’ is a signaling word for conclusion | |
| Basic division intro-body-conclusion | 4 | 5 | A text has an introduction, a body and a conclusion. Paragraphs have white lines | |
| Exercises | Genre, local or global text structure | 8 | 44 | What are the features of a report? What is the structure of paragraph 1? |
Yes = present in number of textbooks; % = percentage of all analyzed lessons