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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"oral narrative"”.
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Sociolinguistic variability in oral narrative.
… non-explanatory and cannot accout for narrative dynamics and style shift. Therefore, an in-depth qualitative examination of the data (which draws mainly on Narrative and Discourse Analysis) forms the major part of the analysis. The study first analyses features common to all the …
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Language Skills, Oral Narrative Production, and Executive Functions of Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
<p>This study assessed the language skills, oral narrative abilities, and executive functions (EFs) of children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) and normal hearing (NH), and examined the differences between two groups as well as the relationships between oral narrative production and EFs.</p> …
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An analysis of the syntactic and lexical features of an Indian English oral narrative: A Pear Story study.
This pilot study addresses the distribution of nonstandard syntactic and lexical features in Indian English (IE) across a homogeneous group of highly educated IE speakers. It is found that nonstandard syntactic features of article use, number agreement and assignment of verb argument structure do …
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The storyteller's voice: The dialogic art of Elizabeth Gaskell.
… her fiction attest to an imagination rooted in oral narrative, marked by the digressiveness and dispersiveness of living speech. She wrote her first novel, she said, as if she were "speaking to a friend over the fire on a winter's night," and the dynamic of telling and listening, the model of …
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Biliteracy Effects on Phonological Awareness, Oral Language Proficiency and Reading Skills in Taiwanese Mandarin-English Bilingual Children
… phonological awareness, Chinese and English oral language proficiency, and English reading skills. Participants were 40 Taiwanese Mandarin-English bilingual children and 20 English monolingual children in the U.S. Based on their performance on a Chinese character reading test, the bilingual …
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Biliteracy effects on phonological awareness, oral language proficiency and reading skills in Taiwanese Mandarin-English bilingual children
… phonological awareness, Chinese and English oral language proficiency, and English reading skills. Participants were 40 Taiwanese Mandarin-English bilingual children and 20 English monolingual children in the U.S. Based on their performance on a Chinese character reading test, the bilingual …
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Improving Literacy Through Instruction and Community Experiences: : The effect of a summer program on literacy outcomes of students from low Ses homes
… <p>A summer program was designed to improve oral and written narrative skills for students from low SES homes. This program was based in a local community ministry and was designed to use thematic units that combined literacy activities with community experiences. Twenty-two students …
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Delirio: The fantastic, the demonic, and the reel narratives from Nuevo Leon
… or nation. It is also about how other events or narratives become phantasms that only surface at disparate moments. These phantasms move towards fiction, fetishism, or writing that is authorized by local dogma. In these movements, these narratives establish and maintain the identity and ideology …
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Influence of collaborative group work on English language learner's oral narratives
… indicated greater syntactic complexity and narrative cohesiveness in the stories produced by students who had participated in collaborative groups. Results were attributed to increases in quantity and quality of talk during collaborative group work. A multinomial logistic regression analysis …
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How does the school culture of a high school in the Western Cape impact the psychological well-being of a teacher of colour?
… research paradigm, and focuses on an oral narrative case study design via the process of semi-structured interview questions involving one participant – a woman teacher of colour. I examine the research question through the method of Ryff's Model of Psychological well-being. Key …
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Legend and landscape: convergence of oral and scientific traditions with special reference to the Yukon territory, Canada
… intellectual traditions in the north, Native oral tradition and western scientif~c research. It begins by discussing my own anthropological field research in the southern Yukon Territory, Canada, the present interest of natural scientists in oral tradition, and the cultural context within …
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Mediating identity through orality in West African films adapted from literature
… of the ways by which filmmakers are mediating oral tradition forms as secondary orality in West African Films. The study aims to show that filmmakers mediate orality as an aesthetic source. The goal is to examine the value of the oral narrative on the screen. To study the oral qualities of the …
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Guided planning, task complexity and second language oral development
… level learners performed a series of oral narrative tasks that increased in complexity over a three week period. Both groups were placed under different planning conditions. One condition involved ‘guided planning’ which consisted of continuous guidance towards English relative clauses …
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“Þe Inglis in seruage”: Textual Englishness, 1175 – 1330
… process that included drawing on a native oral narrative tradition, a limited but identifiable engagement with the Old English textual tradition, and the translation non-English wisdom and sententia. The Proverbs of Alfred (mid 12th C.) and the Owl and the Nightingale (turn of the 13th C.) …
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The role of cognitive individual differences and learning difficulty in instructed adults' explicit and implicit knowledge of selected L2 grammar points: A study with Mexican learners of English
… 7, Level 9). An elicited imitation test and an oral narrative test were used to measure implicit knowledge, and a metalinguistic knowledge test was used to measure explicit knowledge. With respect to language learning aptitude and working memory, the former was operationalised by the LLAMA test, …
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Comparative characterisations of Jesus and the disciples in the Gospel of Mark, with special reference to ancient oral narration
… and his disciples. The recent interest in the oral-aural dynamics in the communication of Mark’s story has caused us to understand that Mark wrote not to be read silently and privately, but read aloud/performed publicly before a live audience, who were mostly unable to read and belonged to an …
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Memoirs of a taboo : a novel. Volume 1 -- Women in pre- and post-Victorian India : the use of historical research in the writing of fiction. Volume 2
… to the novel's structural development, its narrative complexity and its characters. The novel traces the journey of two women protagonists - each placed in the 18th- and the 21st-centuries, respectively - as they reconcile to the realities of their individual circumstances. The introduction …
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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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Rock art incorporated : an archaeological and interdisciplinary study of certain human figures in San art
… Drawing on contemporary theories concerning temporality and embodiment, it is argued that the motif is better understood in relation to recurrent themes of death and regeneration in San mythology and oral narratives, with shamanistic practice enacting related themes. The motif may be seen as …
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