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The Effect of Story Grammar Instruction on EFL Students' Comprehension of Narrative Text.

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Amer, Aly A. – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1992

Story grammar is a recent area of research related to an interactive conceptualization of reading. A study of 70 sixth-grade students studying English as a foreign language (EFL) suggests that direct instruction in story grammar helps students abstract a story's episodic sequence and metastructure. Sample texts are appended. (Contains 21…

Descriptors: Critical Reading, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Grade 6

Effect of Instruction in Story Grammar on the Narrative Writing of EFL Students.

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El-Koumy, Abdel Salam A. – 1999

A study investigated the effects of explicit versus implicit instruction in story grammar on the narrative writing skills of English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) students at the university level. Subjects were 83 freshmen enrolled in English at the Faculty of Education at Suez Canal University (Egypt). The subjects were randomly assigned to…

Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries