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Merritt, Donna DiSegna; Liles, Betty Z. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1989
Twenty language-disordered and 20 nonimpaired children, aged 9-11, performed story generation and story retelling tasks. For both groups, retold narratives were longer and contained more story grammar components and complete episode structures. Clause length differentiated story generation from story retelling for the language-disordered children…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities, Narration
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Ehrlich, Jonathan S. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1988
Ten head-injured adults were compared to normal adults on a narrative picture description task. Subjects were similar in amount of pertinent content expressed, narrative length, and rate of speech, but were significantly slower in rate of information imparted as they required lengthier and slower verbal outputs to convey essential information.…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Expressive Language
Bartlett, Elsa J.; Wilson, Jay C. – 1982
A research project investigated the development of narrative rhetoric in students in grades 3 through 8 in New York City public schools. Two types of tasks were used, the first requiring students to write a story about the events depicted in a drawing, the second asking them to correct rhetorical problems in prepared narratives. A series of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages
Bennett, Ruth, Ed. – 1981
Intended for use with college students, this booklet contains a traditional Hupa story (in Hupa and English) followed by information to aid in a critical literary analysis of the story and topics for student discussion. The introduction explains that "Origin of Fire"--first written down by P.E. Goddard in 1902 and still told by…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian Literature, American Indians