... combination of text and visuals elicits beneficial effects in terms of comprehension of the material. Visuals not only offer additional contextual information to facilitate comprehension, perhaps ... additional contextual information to the students, confirming the value of DCT. Furthermore, Hall, Bailey, and Tillman [31] conducted a study to examine the effects of illustrations on reading ... representation of knowledge structures on ESL reading comprehension, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 14 (1992), 177. [14] W.H. Levie, R. Lentz, Effects of text illustrations: A review of...