Storing Simple Stories: Narrative Recall And the Chinese Student.

Mahoney, Dino; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ547495

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Publication Date: 1997

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Storing Simple Stories: Narrative Recall And the Chinese Student.

Mahoney, Dino; And Others

Language, Culture and Curriculum, v10 n1 p66-87 1997

Examines four factors in the operation of formal schemata in the recall of written narrative texts in English by students in Hong Kong: quantity of recall; temporal sequence of recall from story-schematic and input versions of stories; the effects of second language proficiency level on quantity of recall; and the quality of recall. (31 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: College Students, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Hypothesis Testing, Language Proficiency, Narration, Reading Comprehension, Recall (Psychology), Schemata (Cognition), Second Language Instruction, Story Grammar

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Hong Kong

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