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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Narrative development"”.
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Discovering the meaning behind the story : creating a system for documenting and supporting children's narrative development
Narrative is a powerful core component of human development. Our ability to tell stories has been credited as one of the major influences for the success of the human species. We communicate, think, encode memories, dream, and learn about the world around us through stories. As story-beings, we …
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The Struggle Between Oral and Script Cultures and Its Effect on Narrative Development (Communications, Typography; Britain, France)
Communications historians have in the last several decades begun to trace the outline of a great cultural shift which began with the invention of the phonetic alphabet and accelerated with the invention of print, and which saw man proceed from conceiving of the world primarily in oral terms to …
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Socio-cultural contexts in trauma recovery and post trauma growth in women who experienced intimate partner violence: A social constructivist lens
… of a traumatic event. Meaning-making and narrative development are two processes that support both trauma recovery and post trauma growth. The way in which we make meaning or develop stories about the events in our lives however, are governed by socio-cultural contexts. Social …
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Novel Infrastructures: Urban Literary Forms in Contemporary Lagos, Johannesburg, and Mumbai
… that delimits character mobilities and organizes narrative development. These literary techniques, which I call “novel infrastructures,” function adjunctively with real surrounding infrastructures to convert social processes into narrative. I thus read contemporary global novels infrastructurally, …
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"Reciprocity and the Divine: A Study of the Major ""Homeric Hymns"""
My dissertation is a study of the narrative pattern of reciprocity in the major Homeric Hymns to Demeter, Aphrodite, Apollo and Hermes. I argue that the structure of the Hymns emerges out of a progression of the narrative from strife to reconciliation, and I claim that the gods are celebrated for …
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The impact of the border on Irish fiction, 1969-2016
… the powerful Catholic Hierarchy oversaw the development of a culture defined by fear and hidden trauma. However, partition did not simply divide two nation-states; it also created a liminal border space. At the periphery of both North and South, the border was a site beyond control that …
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Irony in the novelettes of Edith Wharton.
… Mrs. Wharton employs irony in the course of narrative development. Narrative irony is defined as a combination of circumstances or a result that is the opposite of what might be expected or considered to be appropriate. Irony is seen to lie somewhere between comedy and tragedy and is able to …
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Evaluating the utility of the test of narrative language for use with deaf children via American Sign Language
The expressive language tasks of the Test of Narrative Language (Gillam & Pearson, 2004) were administered to eleven deaf, native signers and fifteen English-speaking hearing children who were between the ages of six and ten years old. These tasks were administered to determine the appropriateness …
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Automatic assessment and feature-based characterisation of oral narratives for Afrikaans and isiXhosa children
Developing narrative and comprehension skills in early childhood is critical for later literacy and academic success. Yet, less than 20% of South African 10-year-olds can read for meaning, highlighting an urgent need for early intervention. Accurate assessment is essential for identifying children …
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Are better communicators better readers? An exploration of the connections between narrative language and reading comprehension
… links between speech and later reading development, and the connections between language and reading impairments. Even fewer reading studies have examined expressive skills using a subgroup of speech samples – narrative samples – which are closer to the kind of language practitioners can …