This paper examines the relationship of lexical richness to the quality of ESL learners’ oral narratives. A computational system is designed to automate the measurement of three dimensions of lexical richness, i.e., lexical density, sophistication, and variation, using twenty-five different metrics proposed in the language acquisition literature. This system is used to analyze large-scale data ...

This study was an examination of the relationship of lexical richness to the quality of ESL learners’ oral narratives. A computational system was designed to automate the measurement of three dimensions of lexical richness, i.e., lexical density, sophistication, and variation, using 25 different metrics proposed in the language acquisition literature. This system was used to analyze large-scale...

PURPOSE One feature of literate language, noun phrase elaboration, was examined in the oral fictional narratives of school-aged children. METHOD Two narratives were elicited from 5-, 8- and 11-year-old children, 1 in response to a picture sequence and 1 in response to a single picture. Noun phrases were categorized into 4 types. RESULTS Simple designating noun phrases were produced by all c...

Çalışmanın amacı, Suriyeli kadınların savaş dolayısıyla yaşanan göçün yaşamları üzerindeki etkileri ile gündelik yaşam ve evlilik deneyimlerini değerlendirmektir. Çalışma, kartopu örnekleme yöntemi kullanılarak yapılmıştır. Bu yöntemle, Türkiye’nin sınır ili olan Kilis şehrinde yaşayan Türk erkeklerle yapan 15 katılımcıya ulaşılmıştır. Veriler, katılımcılardan derinlemesine görüşme katılımcı gö...

This is an account of personal narratives shared by several people with dyslexia. Most of these are presented in their original quotation format to provide personal accounts of the lives of people with dyslexia. In this paper the author shares her conversations with her participants. This paper provides an original conceptual model, which is currently been tested empirically. Dyslexia affects t...

Narrative features of the life stories of child abuse survivors and nonvictimized respondents were compared. Particular emphasis was placed on relatively "objective" features, given that the content of the narrative typically precluded blind coding. The research focused on both the relative emphasis on the past versus present and future and on the self versus others in respondents' stories. The...

In the past decade, language memoirs, linguistic autobiographies, and learners’ journals and diaries have become a popular means of data collection in applied linguistics. It is not always clear however how one should go about analyzing these data. The aim of this paper is to offer a critical review of analytical frameworks applied to second language users’ personal narratives. I discuss the st...

PURPOSE To verify the oral narrative abilities in preschoolers, before and after language stimulation. METHODS Participants were 58 preschoolers. The study was developed in three stages: 1. Pre-stimulation stage (Moment 1) - preschoolers produced the first autonomous narrative based on a sequence of pictures, and the second under adult scaffolding; 2. Stimulation stage - it was conducted a we...

For older people with multiple chronic co-morbidities, strategies to coordinate care depend heavily on information exchange. We analyse the information-sharing difficulties arising from differences between patients' oral narratives and medical sense-making; and whether a modified form of 'narrative medicine' might mitigate them. We systematically compared 66 general practice patients' own narra...