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Guoxing Yu, Pauline Rea-Dickins and Richard KielyO’Loughlin, K, and Wigglesworth, G, 2003, ‘Task design in IELTS academic writing task 1:The effect of quantity and manner of presentation of information on candidate writing’ in IELTSResearch Reports Volume 4, ed R Tulloh, IELTS Australia Pty Limited, Canberra, pp 89-130Peebles, D, and Cheng, PCH, 2002, ‘Extending task analytic models of graph-based reasoning:A cognitive model of problem solving with cartesian graphs in act-r/pm’ Cognitive Systems Research,vol 3, no 1, pp 77-86Peebles, D, and Cheng, PCH, 2003, ‘Modeling the effect of task and graphical representation onresponse latency in a graph reading task’, Human Factors, vol 45, no 1, pp 28-47Pinker, S, 1990, ‘A theory of graph comprehension’, in Artificial intelligence and the future of testing,ed R Freedle, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, pp 73-126Roth, WM, 2002, ‘Reading graphs: Contributions to an integrative concept of literacy’Journal of Curriculum Studies, vol 34, no 1, pp 1-24Roth, WM, 2003, Toward an anthropology of graphing: Semiotic and activity-theoretic perspectives,Kluwer Academic Publishers, AmsterdamSaint-Martin, F, 1990, Semiotics of visual language, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, INSchnotz, W, Picard, E, and Hron, A, 1993,’How do successful and unsuccessful learners use texts andgraphics?’ Learning and Instruction, vol 3, no 3, pp 181-199Shah, P, and Carpenter, P A, 1995, ‘Conceptual limitations in comprehending line graphs’Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol 124, no 1, 43-61Shah, P, Freedman, E G, and Vekiri, I, 2005, ‘The comprehension of quantitative information ingraphical displays’ in The cambridge handbook of visuospatial thinking, eds P Shah and A Miyake,Cambridge University Press, New York, pp 426-476Shah, P, and Hoeffner, J, 2002, ‘Review of graph comprehension research: Implications for instruction’Educational Psychology Review, vol 14, no 1, pp 47-69Shah, P, Mayer, RE, and Hegarty, M, 1999, ‘Graphs as aids to knowledge construction: Signalingtechniques for guiding the process of graph comprehension’ Journal of Educational Psychology,vol 91, no 4, pp 690-702Simkin, D, and Hastie, R, 1987, ‘An information-processing analysis of graph perception’Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol 82, no 398, pp 454-465Stewart, B, Hunter, A , and Best, L, 2008, ‘The relationship between graph comprehension and spatialimagery: Support for an integrative theory of graph cognition’ Diagrams, pp 415-418Trickett, SB, and Trafton, JG 2004, ‘Spatial transformations in graph comprehension’ Diagrams,pp 1-19Trickett, SB, and Trafton, JG, 2006, ‘Toward a comprehensive model of graph comprehension:Making the case for spatial cognition’ Diagrams, pp 286-300412 www.ielts.org