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Robert Jean LeBlanc – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2024
Critical approaches to literature in secondary English require greater attention to narrative discourse. In this conceptual article, I provide interpretative tools from contemporary narratology and demonstrate their critical potential for high school English. In particular, I outline critical literacy's vital but overattentive focus on the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Language Arts, Critical Literacy, Novels
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Le, Karen; Coelho, Carl; Mozeiko, Jennifer; Grafman, Jordan – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this article was to evaluate a new measure of story narrative performance: story completeness. It was hypothesized that by combining organizational (story grammar) and completeness measures, story "goodness" could be quantified. Method: Discourse samples from 46 typically developing adults were compared with those from 24…
Descriptors: Story Grammar, Story Telling, Adults, Neurological Impairments
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Bizzocchi, Jim; Tanenbaum, Joshua – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2012
Digital games have matured substantially as a narrative medium in the last decade. However, there is still much work to be done to more fully understand the poetics of story-based-games. Game narrative remains an important issue with significant cultural, economic and scholarly implications. In this article, we undertake a critical analysis of the…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Case Studies, Computer Games, Video Games
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Green, Bill – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2010
Re-reading James Moffett's work in the light of more recent scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, this paper presents a "deconstructive" account of Moffett's key texts. Understanding them as instances in themselves of rhetoric and textuality, and reading them at once "with" and "against" the grain, the…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Rhetorical Invention, Discourse Analysis, English Instruction
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Amiryousefi, Mohammad; Rasekh, Abbass Eslami – English Language Teaching, 2010
Metadiscourse is a new and interesting field of inquiry which is believed to play a vital role in organizing and producing persuasive writing, based on the norms and expectations of people involved. Metadiscourse embodies the idea that writing and speaking are more than just the communication of ideas and presentation of ideational meaning. Rather…
Descriptors: Definitions, English Teachers, Performance Factors, Models
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Burman, Diana; Evans, Deborah; Nunes, Terezinha; Bell, Daniel – Deafness and Education International, 2008
Assessment is essential for designing individualized educational plans (IEPs) for children. In order to contribute effectively to this process, assessments must be appropriate for the group, show neither floor nor ceiling effects, and help teachers formulate specific aims. Different attempts to develop such assessments for the writing of deaf…
Descriptors: Structural Elements (Construction), Special Schools, Reading Comprehension, Childrens Writing
Mora, Raul A. – Online Submission, 2006
The following study explored the structures and themes found in a few episodes of a popular TV sitcom ("Friends"). Drawing on James Gee's ideas about critical discourse analysis as the main analytical lens for this study, this study discussed the language found in a sitcom and analyzed the complexity of structures and vocabulary in the…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Discourse Analysis, Media Literacy, Television
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Akamatsu, C. Tane – American Annals of the Deaf, 1988
Two hearing-impaired students, aged 11 and 12, with differing American Sign Language and English-language skills, participated in a program which instructed them in summarization skills based on a knowledge of story structure. Subjects' knowledge of story structure rose dramatically, and the performance level was maintained in one subject.…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Discourse Analysis, Hearing Impairments, Intermediate Grades
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
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Brooks, C. Darren; Jeong, Allan – Distance Education, 2006
This study examined the effects of pre-structuring discussion threads on group performance in computer-supported collaborative argumentation where students labeled their messages as arguments, challenges, supporting evidence, and explanations on a threaded discussion board. In the pre-structured group students were required to post supporting and…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Group Dynamics, Control Groups, Cognitive Style
McKeown, Gerry; Freebody, Peter – Australian Journal of Reading, 1988
Argues that many interventions for introducing Aboriginal children to literacy continue to be based on "language deficit" models. Examines whether there is indeed a mismatch between the nonstandard spoken language of some Aboriginal children and textbook language. (RAE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cohesion (Written Composition), Dialects, Discourse Analysis