PURPOSE To verify the average time of silent pauses in narratives and the influence of story's complexity in the occurrence of these pauses in narratives of children with typical language development and children with specific language impairment (SLI), and further to compare these aspects between groups. METHODS Sixty children aged between seven to ten years took part in this research, being...

BACKGROUND There are strong theoretical arguments for using narratives in teaching and learning within medicine, but little is known about how they are used in medical lectures. This study explores the types of narratives lecturers use, the attitudes of lecturers and students to the use of narratives in teaching, and the aspects of learning that narratives may facilitate. METHODS Observation ...

Using the picture book “Frog, where are you?” (Mayer, 1969), this study investigated frequency and linguistic forms of evaluative devices in narratives elicited from 29 Japanese native speakers 28 upper-intermediate Chinese learners Japanese. The findings show that preferred style differed between speakers’ learners’ narratives. On one hand, although provided more than Japanese, ratio clause ex...

In the conception of narrative developed by Labov (Labov, 1972, 1981, 1997; Labov & Waletzky, 1967/1997), the typical narrative is that of personal experience. The core formal element of this type of narrative is its temporal organization, and in particular the juxtaposition of two events that cannot be reversed while preserving the coherence of the story (a “temporal junction” (Labov, 1981, p....

PURPOSE Research has identified English oral language proficiency as being critical for bilingual students' literacy development. This study examines developmental patterns and associations among oral vocabulary and narrative skills in a longitudinal sample of 24 Spanish/English bilingual children from low socioeconomic backgrounds so as to further our understanding of the development of oral p...