Children (N = 64; 2 and 3 years of age) labeled another child’s emotion, based on either a prototypical facial expression or on a story about prototypical emotional events for 5 emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and disgust). Proportion correct was low and improved only gradually with age. Children shown the faces produced more correct labels than did those told the stories. Initially,...

This study compares homonym learning to novel word learning by three- to four-year-old children to determine whether homonyms are learned more rapidly or more slowly than novel words. In addition, the role of form characteristics in homonym learning is examined by manipulating phonotactic probability and word frequency. Thirty-two children were exposed to homonyms and novel words in a story wit...

Although unreal and not touching the experience of anyone in the audience, the film was entertaining to watch and made a good story. Perhaps because it was less pretentious than Spellbound (which had a special preamble on psychiatry and billed a psychiatric adviser), the improbabilities did not spoil the enjoyment of the film. Some of the photography was excellent ; scenes in the artist's attic...

The present study sought to explore the impact of story maps and audio podcasts as scaffolds on oral proficiency of Iranian EFL learners. The quasi-experimental study was launched with 36 EFL undergraduates in three groups by adopting a counterbalanced 3  3 Latin squared design. All participants were indiscriminately, but in a specified order, exposed to the three treatment conditions of story ...

minimalist story is a kind of very short story that is summarized sometimes in some lines and sometimes in one page. it tells a short event and in addition includes deep contents.studying verses of holy quran we can see stories in different forms and lengths. meanwhile there are some storiesthat are not more than some lines in lengthso it is possible for the researcher to evaluate these stories...

"Joan Robinson: One Woman's Story' is a cinéma vérité style record of a woman's losing struggle against ovarian cancer. The film has been shown now twice on the American Public Television Network. It has received good notices primarily from the lay press. Yet the film depicts much that is out-of-date and much that is debatable. In general, we feel that it presents a depressing picture of the ca...

In the present case study, we aimed to explore whether there were any differences between monolingual Turkish and Turkish-Italian bilingual children in terms of their use language structures while narrating a story from picture book titled “Frog, where are you?” by Mayer (1969). Four three narrated story. The data recordings indicated some preference for certain features like tense narration. W...