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Miller, Rhonda D. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Studies with monolingual English speakers have demonstrated the significance of children's narrative development for the acquisition of literacy skills. This research has shown that children's ability to perform school narrative tasks may significantly predict children's early literacy skills (Gutierrez-Clellen, 2002), including English reading…
Descriptors: Story Grammar, Oral Language, Language Skills, Story Telling
Matunda, Robert Stephen Mokaya – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The objective of this investigation was to analyze rhetorical strategies of Alice Walker in four narratives, namely, "The Color Purple, In Search of Our Mother's Gardens, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and Now Is the Time To Open Your Heart". As such, this study helps to expand the body of investigation relating linguistics to literature and medium…
Descriptors: Investigations, Rhetoric, Phonology, Semantics