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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"narrative language"”.
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Are better communicators better readers? An exploration of the connections between narrative language and reading comprehension
The association between receptive language skills and reading comprehension has been established in the research literature. Even when the importance of receptive skills for reading comprehension has been strongly supported, in practice lower levels of skills tend to go unnoticed in typically …
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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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The impact of prematurity on language skills at school age
… Reading Project and included discourse-level language samples collected at three points in time, each a year apart. In addition, standardized test results were obtained for IQ, digit span, and global language ability. The language samples were analyzed to yield a number of semantic and …
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Time of day effects on language discourse in healthy aging and dementia
This study’s purpose was to investigate whether language discourse follows a diurnal pattern across one 10-hour day in normal healthy aging individuals (NHA) and individuals with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease. Ten healthy older adults; and ten older adults clinically labeled with probable …
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Thomas Hardy's experiments in narrative discourse in five tragic novels
… helps to clarify Hardy's attempts to use narrative language and form to express the tragic meaning of his characters' discordant lives. Bakhtin's analysis of the dialogic structuring of divergent voices in novels is useful in tracing Hardy's development as a novelist toward open-ended and …
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COGNITION, MODALITY, AND LANGUAGE IN HEALTHY YOUNG ADULTS
Measures drawn from language samples (e.g., discourse measures) are used in clinical and research settings as a functional measure of language and cognitive abilities. In narrative elicitation tasks, discourse measures reliably vary by the type of prompt used to collect a language sample. …
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Facing God: Contemporary American Devotional Poetry
… Poets drawing from scriptural text for narrative, language, or form are not looking to replace scripture, or even enhance it. Poets create new experiences in language, and their writing can illuminate the poetics of scripture. My thesis will examine work by three contemporary poets who …
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The Effects of Language Variation and Age on Measures of Narrative Microstructure
… study was to explore the relationship between language variation, age and narrative microstructure in the spoken narratives of African American school-age children. While efforts to identify language-variety fair measures are underway (e.g., Mills et al., 2021; Mills et al., 2017; Mills & Fox, …
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The ‘Telling Stories’ Project: A case series study of narrative interaction between children who use speech generating devices and their educational staff
Story-telling is important to child language development and plays a critical role within the English National Curriculum. Children who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) have limited opportunities to develop narrative compared to their typically developing peers. The current …
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The poetics of immanence and experience: Robert Lowell, James Wright, Richard Hugo, Jorie Graham
… his/her personal story in a primarily causal, narrative language generated by the structures of the depicted story. The result is the realistic illusion that the poem captures the experience as “it happened”, which is then only transferred to the poem-world from the Object-world. Altieri’s idea …
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Anglo-Italian literary identity in the writings of Margaret Collier, Giacinta Galletti and Joyce Salvadori
… British or Italian. Their struggle to find a narrative language which allows the representation of their familial, cultural and literary subjectivity, identifies concerns about the definition of a European identity and its literary dimension.This study will uncover the dialogic interactions …
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Environmental influences on communication development: Implications for children with neurodevelopmental communication impairments
… impairments such as speech sound disorder, language disorder, and autism spectrum disorder affect approximately 1.5 - 16% of children, and are associated with academic, socioemotional, and behavioral difficulties. The work in Chapter 2 directly examines a common form of environmental support …
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Waves of Change: Longitudinal Growth Profiling of Bilingual (Spanish-English) Language Development
… the research literature supports the notion of language growth trajectories, primarily in monolingual English children, the shape and direction of English-language learners' (ELLs) language growth trajectories are largely unknown. The present study examined the shape of ELLs' language growth …
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The role of schooling for heritage language learners: A case study of Turkish heritage speakers
… a descriptive statistical analysis of heritage language learners’ language skills explores how Turkish communities in the U.S. support their children’s heritage language maintenance with the help of Heritage Language school. The goal of this study is to analyze Heritage Language (HL) literacy …
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The Story Art and Tech
The Story Art and Tech merges storytelling and technology together to elucidate the animated filmmaking process for readers who are interested in animation. The author's path to animation director is traced from beginning to end starting with writing ideas and moving on to forming storyboards and …
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Nancy Huston in Self-translation. An Aesthetics of Redoublement.
… the geo-political and social standing of the languages involved in their production; the literary traditions they combine; the scopes and consequent strategies for self-translation, etc. As a worldwide phenomenon, thus, self-translation is far from being satisfyingly mapped. For this reason, …
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Genre dispostions in crime films of Sub-Saharan Africa
… to investigate the audio-visual aesthetics, narrative aspects, and language aspects, of sampled crime films from sub-Saharan Africa, and to relate their thematic framing to existential realities within the depicted jurisdictions and African societies by extension. To achieve this, qualitative …