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Direct linkJuzwik, Mary M.; Sherry, Michael B. – English Education, 2007
How do teachers in diverse classrooms enact a transactional mode of literary response in their orchestration of classroom conversations about literature? This paper proposes that a theory of expressive language is central to answering this question and that the discourse genre of oral narratives may hold critical importance in accomplishing this…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), English Instruction, Discussion, Discourse Analysis
Peer reviewedNewcomer, Phyllis L.; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1988
Using two modes of production, writing and dictation, the study compared the story production, coherence, and fluency of learning-disabled (LD) children (N=47) with that of normal-achieving and low-achieving subjects across three grade levels. Among results were that mode of production had no effect upon story production or fluency for any…
Descriptors: Dictation, Elementary Secondary Education, Expressive Language, Learning Disabilities
Download full textWeiss, Amy L.; And Others – 1987
The study evaluated narrative production in seven severe to profoundly hearing impaired adolescents in an attempt to determine whether syntactic prowess would predict which subjects would be more adept at narrative production, in terms of the story grammar conventions used, and the cohesive devices used when narrating a story to a naive listener.…
Descriptors: Coherence, Communication Skills, Deafness, Expressive Language
Peer reviewedRipich, Danielle N.; Griffith, Penny L. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1988
Narrative abilities of 24 learning disabled (LD) and 27 nondisabled children (ages 7-12.5 years) were compared. Although LD students were able to reconstruct stories as well as were nondisabled students, narrative analysis of both original and retold stories can provide useful information on language skills beyond the sentence level. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Education, Expressive Language, Language Proficiency
Peer reviewedEhrlich, 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
Peer reviewedTomblin, J. Bruce; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1996
This article describes the EpiSLI diagnostic system for identifying specific language impairment in kindergarten children for the purpose of epidemiological research. The system employs five composite scores representing norm-referenced performance in three domains of language (vocabulary, grammar, and narration) and two modalities (comprehension…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Diagnostic Tests, Disability Identification, Educational Diagnosis
