The aim of the current study was to investigate verbal communication skills in children with typical language development and ages between 6 and 8 years. Participants were 10 children of both genders in this age range without language alterations. A 30-minute video of each child's interaction with an adult (father and/or mother) was recorded, fully transcribed, and analyzed by two trained resea...

In this paper we analyze a selection of narrative-oriented software tools which can benefit young people’s foreign language learning by fostering creativity, encouraging the use of target language and helping to develop communication skills, all within a motivating context. Using these programs students can create various types of narrative, including “talking” storyboards, interactive stories,...

Digital technology is playing an increasingly important role in our lives. Software has become indispensable and pervasive in a relatively short period of time. In education, digital technology has the potential to support the acquisition of several skills: logical reasoning, teamwork, narrative and literacy among them. Computer programming has long been believed to help improve logical reasoni...

Children with autism exhibit a deficit in the comprehension and creation of narrative which impacts their social world. Our ongoing research agenda is to find ways of developing interactive learning environments which enhance the ability of individual children with autism to deal with narrative and thus the social world. The study reported here involved 12 children in a longitudinal study which...

ed from: Spencer, T. D., & Slocum, T. A. (2010). The effect of a narrative intervention on story retelling and personal story generation skills of preschoolers with risk factors and narrative language delays. Journal of Early Intervention, 32(3), 178-199. ImplIcatIons summary purpose Small group narrative intervention can be efficient and cost-effective. Children enjoy the game-like procedures,...

Interactive narrative (IN) has increasingly been used for social skill training. However, extensive content creation is needed to provide learners with flexibility to replay scenarios with sufficient variety to achieve proficiency. Such flexibility requires considerable content creation appropriate for social skills training. The goal of our work is to address these issues through developing a ...

This study examined the effects of the children's TV program Arthur on the development of narrative skills over an academic year for Spanish-speaking English-language learners. In October, February, and June of their kindergarten year, children were asked to tell a story, in English, prompted by 3 pictures. Before the 2nd and 3rd assessments, half of the 108 children were randomly assigned to v...

In this paper we introduce i-Theater, an interactive integrated system for developing narrative skills through story-creation and storytelling, dedicated to young children.

This article discusses narrative intelligence in the context of the evolution of primate (social) intelligence, and with respect to the particular cognitive limits that constrain the development of human social networks and societies. The Narrative Intelligence Hypothesis suggests that the evolutionary origin of communicating in a narrative format co-evolved with increasingly complex social dyn...

AIMS Two types of virtual patient designs can be distinguished - a 'narrative' structure and a 'problem-solving' structure (1). This study assesses attitudes of students with respect to learning communication skills via a virtual patient; and compares acceptability of the two different types of virtual patient designs. METHODS Two virtual patients were constructed around the same case, each e...