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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"story retelling"”.
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Communicative Competence In Persons With Aphasia: The Impact Of Executive Function
… communication board was tested during a Story Retelling task. In addition, the PWA's executive function skills were examined using six nonverbal tests. The PWA group performance scores were compared to that of the neurologically healthy control group.</p> <p>Results demonstrated that the …
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Narrative discourse production in language impaired learning disabled young adolescents
… young adolescents on a number of measures: story length, amount of information, coherence, evaluation and cohesion. In addition, it compared the performance of language impaired learning disabled and non-learning disabled young adolescents on three types of narrative tasks (story generation …
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Narrative Skills in Children with Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus
… with the same vocabulary age (VA) performed on story retelling and story generation tasks. The children were asked to retell two stories of different lengths (Stein and Glenn's Melvin, the Skinny Mouse and The Tiger's Whisker) and generate two stories from different stimuli (wordless picture …
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School-Age Children's Ability to Produce and Judge Syntactic Forms (Metalinguistic Skill)
… taking), and past progressive (was taking) in a story retelling task. They judged grammatical form of these three verb forms in a story context and a context of unrelated sentences. Production results revealed that 8-year-old children produced all forms at a significantly higher rate than the …
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How Play in the Kindergarten Classroom Can Suport Student Success in Meeting the California Language Arts Standards
… print, letter recognition, phonemic awareness, story retelling, and phonetic decoding.</p>
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Effects of Computerized Storybooks on Early Literacy Development of Preschool Children with Weak Self-Regulation Skills
… an expressive vocabulary posttest, and a story retelling posttest. Both universally designed methods were effective in developing an internalization of the story vocabulary, as well as overall comprehension of the story.
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Anaphoric reference in oral narratives of 6- and 7-year-old children
… narrative than for the structured narrative of story retelling. Within-group comparison of child subjects according to their scores on the Peabody Individual Achievement Test indicate that even small differences in reading ability were significantly related to increases in appropriate functional …
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Aging and the Effects of Conversation With a Passenger of a Caller on Simulated Driving Performance
… of older and younger participants engaged in a story retelling task in a driving simulator. The results showed better lane keeping and more stable velocity control when drivers conversed with their partner compared to driving only. Drivers also showed faster average velocity under single-task …
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Reclaiming Myth: Feminist Reinterpretations and the Creation of a More Inclusive Narrative
… can discern parallels between. These fictional retellings put women at the center of the story, retelling the myth through the perspective of the women in it. Through centering women, the myth is adapted to be more inclusive and relatable to the female experience by reimagining existing …
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Beyond the mere word. Exploring the language of Drama through text- and performance-based approaches for developing L2 oral skills
… and dialogic: oral proficiency interview, story-retelling and guided role-play. To elicit learners’ attitudes questionnaires and follow-up interviews were used, thus affording me deeper insights into learners’ preferences, reasons for enjoyment, their usefulness for developing language …
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Cross-linguistic transfer in third language acquisition: a comparative study of Mandarin L2 and Guangxi Cantonese L3 learners of English
… of English (L2 learners) in two writing tasks: story retelling and Chinese-to-English translation. The data constituted a self-built corpus of the written production of 35 university students with Guangxi Cantonese as their first language (L1), Mandarin as their second language (L2), and English …
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The Talking Hands?: The Relation between Gesture and Language in Aphasic Patients
… and quantitatively co-speech gestures during a story-retelling task. The objective was to understand the relation between language and gesture ability in the aphasic patient: whether impairments in language production influence gesture production, as suggested by the long existing notion …
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Journaling as a Tool to Improve Story Comprehension for Kindergarten Students.
<p>This study investigated story journaling to enhance story comprehension. Eighteen kindergarten children participated in this six-week study with the teacher reading a total of twenty-four stories to the class. The class was randomly divided into Group A and Group B, with 3 focus participants …
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Effectiveness of Story Enactments Versus Art Projects in Facilitating Preschool Children's Story Comprehension
… compare preschool children's comprehension of a story after either enacting the story or participating in an art project, and (b) to qualitatively describe the children's interactions during the more interactive story enactment instruction. Twenty children from two Head Start classrooms were told …