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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"oral narratives"”.
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Watching Storytelling: Visual Information in Oral Narratives
Oral narratives, though prolific, are increasingly being shared via some form of electronic mediation, and yet they are often glossed over in regard to the study of narrative. This study was designed to address the unique nature of oral narratives focusing on the information channels utilized by …
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Behind the mask: another perspective on the slavewomen's oral narratives
… it exemplifies the harshness of slavery. The oral slave narratives, often referred to by the same historians, are one of the few primary sources by and on slave women. Yet, historians have not used them adequately in research on slave women, primarily because of inadequate conceptual …
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Influence of collaborative group work on English language learner's oral narratives
… effective instructional approach to foster ELL’s oral narrative skill and causal reasoning. A general implication is that speaking is more than using correct expressions. Speaking in a second language is learning to think and reason within that language.
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Anaphoric reference in oral narratives of 6- and 7-year-old children
… ability to use anaphoric pronominal reference in oral narratives. For frequency of anaphoric pronoun use, there appears to be a significant difference between child and adult performance. Although children and adults generally refer to the same categories of noun referents, children evidence a …
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Oral narratives of personal experience : a developmental sociolinguistic study of Cape Flats children
Bibliography: leaves 268-282.
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Automatic assessment and feature-based characterisation of oral narratives for Afrikaans and isiXhosa children
… this work provides a foundation for automatic oral narrative assessment tools in low-resource languages, informing targeted interventions in foundational phase classrooms.
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Isixhosa interpretations of the Nongqawuse saga: oral narratives and theatrical performances of the Nongqawuse story
The subject of this thesis is centred on the creative and linguistic interpretations (in English and isiXhosa) of the Nongqawuse prophecy and the cattle-killing of 1856-1857. By examining a range of historical, cultural and anthropological sources, the study foregrounds traditional African theatre …
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Written narratives as an avenue for Swazi women to debate marginalization and inconsistencies of patriarchy
… The women exclusively compose traditional oral narratives, and remain the key storytellers. Despite the pervasive patriarchal ideology that essentializes Swazi women as inferior, I argue that oral narratives (folktales) and modern written narratives indicate the fluidity of Swazi women’s …
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Haunts of the Hill: Western Kentucky University Ghostlore
… Tower. I explored the details of the traditional oral narratives and compared those details from personal or close to personal experience. Next, I analyzed the details that have stayed the same over time or changed.</p> <p>To accomplish my project I went to a few of the Welcome Week campus tours, …
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Oral Narration of African American Students in General and Gifted Education Programs
… in gifted education programs. The differences in oral narration among 50 students in general and gifted education programs, grades two through five, were investigated. Students produced audiotaped oral narratives based on a wordless book, Frog, Where Are You?, and on child-friendly story prompts. …
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The structure of Finnish shamanic therapy
… an evaluation is made of the utility of oral narratives for anthropological research into shamanism. The kinds of information they provide, the lacunae and biases they possess are discussed.</p><p>The primary sources of the study consist of oral narratives, such as memorates, belief …
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"""That Is What I Said to Him"": American Women's Narratives About Indians, 1879-1934"
… authorial agency continue to keep transcribed oral narratives out of the American canon. Chapter 2 re-reads Jackson's best-selling romance Ramona (1884), as bucking assimilationist ideology, rather than (as is commonly assumed) as underwriting the passage of the 1884 Dawes (General Allotment) …
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Language Profiles and Narrative Skills in Subclinical Language Children: Implications for Early Screening
… study examined language metrics obtained from oral narratives of first-grade subclinical children and compared them to those of children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). Specifically, we examined the mean length of utterance in words (MLUw), total number of different words (TNDW), …
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National Integration: The State in Search of Community
… of the three communities studied on the basis of oral narratives and published accounts. Chapter 4 explicates the state's vision as stated in their constitutions and contrasts them with the views of the elite in the three communities. Chapter 5 shows that while the bases of vision might lie in …
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Minoritized Teacher Identity Construction within Instances of Racialization
… group and individual interviews. I focus on the oral narratives told within these interviews on interactions and experiences in the workplace and the classroom. The focus of this study is specifically on teachers who identify as Muslim, and the context is higher education institutes in the United …
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Spalding Gray's Life As Art Story: Toward A Critical Perspective Of The Autoperformance
… autoperformance has emerged as part of a new oral tradition. Using the form of the one-person show, he and other autoperformers transform their lives into art, as they perform autobiographical oral narratives. As a post-modern art form, the autoperformance transgresses the boundaries of …
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"Dat's one chile of mine you ain't never gonna sell": Gynecological Resistance within the Plantation Community
… of their own. Relying primarily on the WPA slave narratives, as well as the Virginia Plantation records, this thesis first seeks to examine cases of gynecological resistance, as well as the motivations behind these acts. This thesis argues that enslaved women used gynecological resistance as a …
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Public Memory: How Vietnam Veterans are using Technology to Make Private Memory Public
… veterans propels the textual writings and oral narratives that are created when memory of the veterans is driven by the conversation of a historical moment. These historic moments or reunions are now becoming more frequent and are being attended by larger numbers of Vietnam veterans every …
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Unravelling the written word: expressive writing, narratives and counselling psychology
… experience of the individuals and the types of narratives people write. This doctoral research approaches ‘Expressive Writing’ from a narrative perspective, which argues that individuals construct their sense of self and create meaning of their own lives through the use of narratives. The aim of …
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Habitar o Patrimônio: práticas cotidianas e disputas na preservação dos bens edificados
… experiences, through participant observation and oral narratives; and practical and collaborative experimentation, materialized in the Ybipitanga Project, which articulates initiatives of extension, culture, research and innovation at the Goiás Campus of the Federal University of Goiás, also …
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