In this article, an attempt is made to show how the language of motivation in infant classrooms might be researched. It investigates the relationship between the text that pupils and teachers produce as a story in their school life and the narrative voice of the researcher. (Author/CT)

Compositions of 10 high-knowledge and 10 low-knowledge fourth-grade students taught by either academically-oriented or cognitive developmentally-oriented teachers were analyzed in terms of four types of propositions they contained to assess the relative influence of writers' prior knowledge and teachers' classroom lesson structure on students'…

Describes a study of what makes a statement important in a text. Results indicate that judgments of importance are determined, in part, by local linking of one event to another by causal and/or logical inferences. The results of these individual links is a network of events and event relations. (SED)

The issue of teachers' interpretion of children's language and ideas is explored through observations of sharing time in a second-grade classroom. Problems associated with teacher evaluation of student competence in classrooms where children come from various ethnic and linguistic backgrounds are discussed. (DF)

Argues that medieval drama in performance suggests a number of important issues about the nature of literature, particularly about the way narrative and dramatic art can express the life of a community. Presents a series of exercises that start with familiar, nonthreatening situations in order to approach the richness of medieval plays and the…

Examines the narrative story structure of a short American Sign Language narrative using stylistic analysis plus the structure of pausing in the narrative. (FL)

The debate over use of self disclosure in the interpersonal communication course is an important issue for all instructors, particularly for those with limited teaching experience. The debate focuses on whether it is ethical and/or practical to encourage students to engage in highly personal self disclosure and the uses of self disclosure as…

Attempts both to reconcile the divergent critical views which have grown about the novel and to determine whether this critical examination can have any meaning for those readers who find the novel useless--or worse--in terms of their own experience. (JM)

Special issue devoted to contemporary Spanish American literature. (DS)