This collaborative classroom action research described the use of storytelling in teaching English speaking. The subjects were 13 junior high school students at SMP Laboratorium STKIP Jambi, Indonesia. qualitative data consisted field notes, students’ diaries, photographs, and videos learning process collected through observations analyzed descriptively. quantitative students' scores their spea...

The main objective of this study was to verify the effectiveness an intervention program on cohesion in pupils with typical development and developmental language disorder. A total 99 5-year-old from schools island Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain) participated. For narrative analysis, a story retelling task used, studying cohesive resources such as ellipsis, anaphora, possessives, connectors. o...

This cross-sectional study investigated the spoken expository discourse skills of children and adolescents elicited in generation and retelling conditions. There were three groups of participants: young school-age children (M = 7.0 years; n = 64); intermediate-school-age children (M = 11.3 years; n = 18) and high-school-age students (M = 17.6 years; n = 18). Participants were asked to generate ...

This paper reports a study assessing a new computer tool for cartoon storytelling, created by the authors for a target audience in the upper half of the English and Welsh Key Stage 2 (Years 5 and 6, covering ages 9 to 11 years). The tool attempts to provide users with more opportunities for expressive visualisation than previous educational software; its design was motivated by earlier work con...

Story listening contributes greatly to children’s development, and much research has explored different modalities of story listening in children. However, few studies have utilized haptic sensory input. In the present 2-session study, we implemented a haptic vest that generates haptic sensations on a child’s back as he or she listens to stories. In the first session, child participants rated h...

Story listening contributes greatly to children’s development, and much research has explored different modalities of story listening in children. However, few studies have utilized haptic sensory input. In the present 2-session study, we implemented a haptic vest that generates haptic sensations on a child’s back as he or she listens to stories. In the first session, child participants rated h...

Oral narrative retelling is a complex linguistic and cognitive task that has been shown to map onto reading fluency and comprehension. Therefore, it is important to understand oral retelling skill, especially among emergent bilingual children – those who are learning two languages simultaneously. In this article, exploratory quantitative and qualitative findings from a study investigating the b...

This study intends to investigate lecturers' practices for teaching speaking in online learning during pandemic COVID-19. For Lecturer, has posed a new challenge, particularly the area of speaking. To make lesson more exciting, lecturer requires strategy and should be able mix it with media. The research was descriptive qualitative study. focused on two UNSIKA-speaking lecturers. study, researc...