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Ice, Marie A. – 1990
A study examined the process of change in story development (in contrast to documenting common structures) found in the stories generated by cross-cultural/cross-linguistic students. Subjects, 12 first-grade native English-speaking students in either of two separate school districts and 23 cross-cultural/cross-linguistic students representing the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Research, Grade 1
Otanes, Fe T., Ed.; Hale, Austin, Ed. – 1986
This is the second volume of articles produced at the 1982 Summer Institute of Linguistics of the Linguistics Society of the Philippines. Seven articles from this conference appear in Volume 5, Number 1, grouped under Sections I and II. The remaining four papers, grouped under Section III, appear in this volume and deal with a variety of topics…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Research
Singer, Marti; Etter-Lewis, Gwendolyn – 1986
In a study designed to further define individual differences in reading comprehension, 200 students enrolled in developmental reading courses at a large urban university participated in an experiment that investigated the relationship between personality type and reading comprehension. The students took a reading comprehension test consisting of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Individual Differences, Learning Processes
Sadoski, Mark; And Others – 1985
The spontaneous use of imaging and its relationships to verbal recall and literary analysis were investigated in a study in which 72 college students read a literary text under one of three sets of instructions that manipulated processing depth in an externally valid fashion. Imagery reports and free verbal recalls of the story were collected…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Imagery, Literary Criticism
Fox, Carol; Sauer, Margery – 1988
"Celebrate Literature!," a multi-volume articulated literature curriculum for grades K-6, intended to foster students' awareness of their literary heritage, increase their knowledge of story structure and provide examples of excellence in children's literature, is described in this paper. The paper also describes how by building upon…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Guides
Terblanche, Leezill – 2002
Teachers can greatly extend a child's literacy development through the use of interactive read-alouds. When a story is read aloud to children a number of opportunities arise for extended activities that are related to the story and further literacy support. Children are able to learn about literacy through an adult modeling good reading behavior.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Oral Reading, Reading Aloud to Others, Reading Comprehension
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
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Liskin-Gasparro, Judith E. – Modern Language Journal, 1996
Analyzes the narrative, descriptive, and evaluative structures of one person's two stories, drawn from oral proficiency interviews, about the same event told at the intermediate high and advanced levels on the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) scale. The discourse analysis revealed that the second story builds upon the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Students, Context Effect, Discourse Analysis
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Yoshinaga-Itano, Christine; Downey, Doris M. – Volta Review, 1996
A series of studies on 474 Colorado students (ages 7-18) with hearing impairments investigated the use of inference and elaboration, sequencing, and story-grammar strategies. The use of eight types of sequence/connection/cohesion strategies was examined. Results found that different strategies predominate depending on participants' age and degree…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Metacognition
Englert, Carol Sue; Mariage, Troy – Academic Therapy, 1990
POSSE, an instructional procedure for a reading comprehension curriculum, structures classroom dialogue about text meaning. Students with mild handicaps predict what the story will be about, organize their knowledge, search for the text structure, summarize, and evaluate. POSSE's successful application is dependent upon effective lesson dialogue…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Dialogs (Language), Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies
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Hayes, David – Reading Horizons, 1989
Encourages the use of storytelling in the classroom as a method for developing verbal, written, and reading skills, as well as non-verbal communication skills. Offers guidelines and specific activities for involving students in storytelling. (RAE)
Descriptors: Children, Class Activities, Elementary Education, Nonverbal Communication
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Gersten, Russell; Dimino, Joseph – Educational Leadership, 1989
Through story grammar instruction, low-achieving students are discovering that literature can be fun to read and perhaps have application to their own lives. (Author/TE)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students, Literature Appreciation
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Cameron, Lynne – ELT Journal, 1994
Cognitive development research can be applied to the learning of a second language, resulting in a view of language learning as the acquisition and development of expertise. From this framework, two processes are viewed from within this framework for learners of English: learning vocabulary and learning discourse and story. (Contains 10…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Psychology, Concept Formation
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Baumann, James F.; Bergeron, Bette S. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1993
Investigates the effectiveness of instruction in story mapping as a means to promote first-grade students' comprehension of central story elements in children's literature. Concludes that instruction in story mapping is an effective instructional strategy for promoting first-grade students' ability to identify central narrative elements in…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Comparative Analysis, Grade 1, Instructional Effectiveness
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Benson, Margaret S. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1997
Examined association between understanding of psychological causation and ability of young children from low-income families to produce goal-based episodes in narratives. Participants "read" book and resulting narrative was coded for psychological causation and goal-based episodes. Use of psychological causation was related to age and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Goal Orientation, Language Skills
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