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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"children's stories"”.
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Exploring the impact of the use of children's stories in the ESL classroom
… to explore the possible impact of the use of children's literature in the ESL classroom. A literature-based program that incorporates children's stories into the language class was designed and implemented for this purpose. This thesis reports and analysis the results of the pilot study and …
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Three original dramatic adaptations of children's stories with prompt books and suggestions for their production
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1955 J66
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Epistemic entanglements in an age of universals: literacy, libraries and children's stories in rural Malawi
… the lens of globally circulating Anglophone children’s story books and the emergence of village libraries. While Africa in the twenty-first century is being seen as an emerging global player, many African countries are, however, still struggling to provide the basics of a quality education …
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Representing and analyzing temporal complexity in children's story books
In this thesis, the temporal complexity in children's stories is analyzed to better understand the development of children's perception of time. The temporal complexity increases both in greater deviations from a chronological presentation of events, as well as an increase in the different kinds of …
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Increasing social interaction in socially isolated preschool children
… peer acceptance in socially isolated pre school children. It investigated whether children's stories a lone, and children' s stories paired with instrument playing led to improved peer ratings and an increase in social interaction during the following s mall group and large group free play …
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StoryMat : a computer-mediated space for children's fantasy play and collaborative storytelling
… play serves an important role in preschool children's development. Making up characters and telling stories around them are activities through which children make sense of and test out their hypotheses about the world. While computers are increasingly present in the world of young children, …
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The writings of Louisa Tuthill : cultivating architectural taste in nineteenth-century America
… guides and style books, Tuthill contributed histories, advice books, children's stories and edited collections. When the History is placed within the context of Tuthill's other writings r it becomes part of a larger plan for elevating national morals, a plan requiring education in architecture …
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Creating a "Mythology for England": the role of England and Englishness in the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien
… them with a sense of Englishness. His short stories relate to England and English concerns, from stories that are more obviously tied in with the history of England, such as Farmer Giles of Ham, to stories that relate to twentieth century concepts of Englishness, such as his children's …
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Storytelling with robots : effects of robot language level on children's language learning
Children's oral language skills in preschool can predict their academic success later in life. Increasing children's skills early on could improve their success in middle and high school. To this end, I examined the potential of a sociable robotic learning/teaching companion in supplementing …
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The Collective (A Novel): Part One
… kind. The Santa of “The Collective” has outgrown children’s stories.</p>
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From pretending to supposing: redeeming the madwoman in Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess
This thesis demonstrates how the emergent genre of girls’ literature in the Victorian period served to destabilize and challenge contemporary restrictive depictions of women. It revises the theory of Gilbert and Gubar in The Madwoman in the Attic, which posits that in nineteenth-century literature, …
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What does a child's story tell you?
The stories that students tell in the classroom have the potential to be an invaluable resource for teachers. Through a focus on the language used, these stories can provide teachers with information about their students' sociocultural backgrounds and therefore, the knowledge that students bring to …