Horsing around Again: Poetics and Intention in Oral Narrative Performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Borland
Keyword(s):  
Oral Narrative ◽  
Narrative Performance

Body and Image in Oral Narrative Performance

1977 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold Scheub
Keyword(s):  
Oral Narrative ◽  
Narrative Performance

Oral Narrative Performance of African American Prekindergartners Who Speak Nonmainstream American English

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Patton Terry ◽  
Monique T. Mills ◽  
Gary E. Bingham ◽  
Souraya Mansour ◽  
Nancy Marencin
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American English ◽  
Oral Narrative ◽  
Narrative Performance

Relationship Between Performance on Oral Narrative Retells and Vocabulary Assessments for Spanish-English Speaking Children

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 402-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Wood ◽  
Mary Claire Wofford ◽  
Christopher Schatschneider
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
Dual Language ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Oral Narrative ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Predicting Performance ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Narrative Performance ◽  
Vocabulary Assessment

This project aimed to describe oral narrative retells of Spanish-English speaking dual language learners (DLLs) and examine relationships with standardized vocabulary assessments. Investigators described oral narrative retells of 145 DLLs in kindergarten and first grade by number of different words (NDW), words per minute (WPM), and macrostructural components. Hierarchical regression analyses were used to examine relationships between narrative retells and standardized vocabulary performance. Children in first grade showed significantly better narrative retells than kindergarten DLLs, characterized by greater NDW and WPM, and more macrostructural components. Regression results indicated NDW accounted for the majority of the unique variance in DLLs’ performance on standardized vocabulary assessments. Findings substantiate that narrative retells are educationally relevant tools in predicting performance on a standardized English vocabulary assessment. The study contributes to knowledge of narrative performance of typically developing DLLs and supports the utility of retells in assessment of DLLs.

Sensationally Reading Ghana’s Joy-Ride Magazine

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther de Bruijn
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Oral Narrative ◽  
Military Government ◽  
Text And Image ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Cultural Experiences ◽  
Printed Text ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Narrative Performance

AbstractThis article argues that the 1980s and nineties popular literary magazine Joy-Ride attracted an exceptionally wide and regular readership by transposing the sensational aesthetics of Ghanaian oral narrative performance into the printed text. Joy-Ride retained its circulation in a period of devastating economic and sociopolitical tumult that resulted from an accumulation of natural disasters combined with the forced austerity measures of J. J. Rawling’s military government. Offering a collage of modern media such as serialized comics and photonovels, the magazine created intertextual associations with popular cultural experiences like Concert Party theatre and Ananse storytelling. Comics scholarship and affect and embodiment studies come together to support my position that the rich integration of text and image in Joy-Ride worked mnemonically to produce a sense of cultural vibrancy in the magazine narratives. This vitalism functioned, I argue, to sustain a feeling of cultural continuity for the magazine’s readership.

A cross-linguistic study of the development of gesture and speech in Zulu and French oral narratives

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
RAMONA KUNENE NICOLAS ◽  
MICHÈLE GUIDETTI ◽  
JEAN-MARC COLLETTA
Keyword(s):  
School Children ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Oral Narratives ◽  
Oral Narrative ◽  
Linguistic Differences ◽  
Linguistic Study ◽  
Bantu Language ◽  
Parallel Effect ◽  
Narrative Performance ◽  
Effect Of Age

AbstractThe present study reports on a developmental and cross-linguistic study of oral narratives produced by speakers of Zulu (a Bantu language) and French (a Romance language). Specifically, we focus on oral narrative performance as a bimodal (i.e., linguistic and gestural) behaviour during the late language acquisition phase. We analyzed seventy-two oral narratives produced by L1 Zulu and French adults and primary school children aged between five and ten years old. The data were all collected using a narrative retelling task. The results revealed a strong effect of age on discourse performance, confirming that narrative abilities improve with age, irrespective of language. However, the results also showed cross-linguistic differences. Zulu oral narratives were longer, more detailed, and accompanied by more co-speech gestures than the French narratives. The parallel effect of age and language on gestural behaviour is discussed and highlights the importance of studying oral narratives from a multimodal perspective within a cross-linguistic framework.

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