PURPOSE To verify the use of conjunctions in narratives, and to investigate the influence of stimuli's complexity over the type of conjunctions used by children with specific language impairment (SLI) and children with typical language development. METHODS Participants were 40 children (20 with typical language development and 20 with SLI) with ages between 7 and 10 years, paired by age range...

Abstract The current study aimed to investigate age-related differences in narrative abilities at the macrostructural and microstructural levels examine which aspects explain macrostructure ages six eight. Oral narratives were elicited from 89 Croatian monolingual children using Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN). At level, measure of lexical diversity D, clausal density, ...

The effects different awareness-raising techniques might have on language learners’ performance have been studied by many researchers. The present study specifically focused on improving EFL learners’ oral narrative task performance in terms of accuracy, fluency and complexity by awareness raising through semantic fields. The participants in the study included 40 intermediate learners whose ini...

The paper aims to evaluate the sociocultural and literary potential of age-old popular Odia oral literature, which includes folk songs, lullabies rhymes, are variously known as Nanabaya geetas. There songs like Chakulia Panda gita, Kendara Halua Gita, Janughantia Kelakeluni professionally sung by people on different occasions. Also, it a critical discussion stories poetic plays in light their p...

The territory of the island Atauro, in Timor Leste, has been past subject internal conflicts between three dialectal groups that compose population, revealing difficult life conditions on an with limited water resources. narratives about places given by inhabitants allow us to understand representations space and formulate some hypotheses its settlement. article explores mythology birth island,...

This dissertation deals with firms’ visual and pre-visual self-representations in accounting narratives. Self-representations are those descriptions about the company that firms include in accounting narratives to convey the current standings and their identity. External stakeholders increasingly expect non-numerical information about firms to be disclosed, and accounting narratives are a key m...

Megaprojects along with creating value to the economy, create environmental, social and political disruptions in its local environment. Narratives guide action hence both promoters protesters of a project mobilize narratives advance their interest. In this process, counter-narratives are (re)created interaction often establishes dominant narrative. Using case High Speed Two (HS2) megaproject En...

We analyze the narratives that accompany the numerical forecasts in the Bank of England’s Inflation Reports. We focus on whether the narratives contain useful information about the future course of key macro variables over and above the point predictions, in terms of whether the narratives can be used to enhance the accuracy of the numerical forecasts. We also consider whether the narratives ar...