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solution (narration) and descriptions of some typical objects involved in the solution (description).
Nevertheless, in an assessment like PISA it is useful to categorise texts according to the text type,
based on the predominant characteristics of the text, in order to ensure that the instrument
samples across a range of texts that represent different types of reading.
98. The classification of texts used in PISA is adapted from the work of Werlich (1976) and are
shown in Box 5.
Box 5. Classification of texts
Description is the type of text where the information refers to properties of objects in space.
The typical questions that descriptive texts provide an answer to are
what questions.
Descriptions can take several forms. Impressionistic descriptions present information from the
point of view of subjective impressions of relations, qualities and directions in space. Technical
descriptions present information from the point of view of objective observation in space.
Frequently, technical descriptions use non-continuous text formats such as diagrams and
illustrations. Examples of text objects in the text type category description are a depiction of a
particular place in
a travelogue or diary, a catalogue, a geographical map, an online flight
schedule
or a description of a feature, function or process in a technical manual.
Narration is the type of text where the information refers to properties of objects in time.
Narration typically answers questions relating to
when, or
in what sequence. Why characters in
stories behave as they do is another important question that narration typically answers.
Narration can take different forms.
Narratives present change from the point of view of
subjective selection and emphasis, recording actions and events from the point of view of
subjective impressions in time.
Reports present change from the point of view of an objective
situational frame, recording actions and events which can be verified by others.
News stories
intend to enable the readers to form their own independent opinion of facts and events without
being influenced by the reporter’s references to his own views. Examples
of text objects in the
text type category
narration are a novel, a short story, a play, a biography, a comic strip and a
newspaper report of an event.
Exposition is the type of text in which the information is presented as composite
concepts or
mental constructs, or those elements into which concepts or mental constructs can be
analysed. The text provides an explanation of how the different elements interrelate in a
meaningful whole and often answers questions about
how. Expositions can take various forms.
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