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Narrative Abilities in Hearing-Impaired Children: Propositions and Cohesion.
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Griffith, Penny L.; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1990
Two linguistic microstructures (propositions and cohesive devices) were analyzed in story recalls by 11 primary and intermediate level hearing-impaired students. When stories were very simple, students generated mostly complete propositions, however as complexity increased, semantic errors resulted in fewer complete propositions. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Coherence, Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education
Summarizing Stories: The Role of Instruction in Text Structure in Learning to Write.
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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
Story Structure Recall in Hearing-Impaired, Learning-Disabled and Nondisabled Children.
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Griffith, Penny L.; Ripich, Danielle N. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1988
Eleven elementary-school hearing-impaired students were shown pictures and asked to make up a story; and were presented stories in speech and signs, with and without pictures, and asked to retell the stories. Results indicated that the students made use of story grammars in organizing retellings and in constructing stories; pictures enhanced…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Hearing Impairments, Learning Disabilities, Pictorial Stimuli
Development of Text Structure Knowledge as Assessed by Spoken and Signed Retellings of a Deaf Second-Grade Student.
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Luetke-Stahlman, Barbara; Griffiths, Cindy; Montgomery, Nancy – American Annals of the Deaf, 1998
A study examined whether text structures were included in the "oral" videotaped retellings of a second grader with deafness across 28 texts. Improvements in the child's ability to include specific elements of text structures were documented over nine months. A 12-month increase in reading ability and narrative ability was also documented.…
Descriptors: Deafness, Grade 2, Narration, Primary Education