"Chascune hystoire est d'ymage illustree," wrote Gilles Corrozet towards the end of the introduction to his emblem book, Hecatongraphie, published in Paris in I543. He had begun by saying that the chief aims he had in mind when writing his little moral stories were pleasure and instruction but that pictures had been added to make his ideas more vivid; these would also be useful to people other ...

Early literacy in children begins through picture drawing and the subsequent sharing of an orally narrated story out of the drawn picture. This is the basis for the Picture Books story generation system whose motivation is to produce a textual counterpart of the input picture in order for the child to associate words with images. However, stories are comprised of sequences of events that occur ...

The present study was carried out to examine the effect of movement and coloring of concomitant pictures on children's story learning. The story was Hans Christian Andersen's HINAGIKU (daisy), which was 47 sentences long. In relation to the story, the subjects in experimental groups were presented the static or moving pictures by means of picture-card show or animation video. Those pictures wer...

this study was set to reveal how second language learners use rhetorical relations in their written narratives in terms of rhetorical structure theory (rst) primarily proposed by mann & thompson (1987) and developed by mann, matthiessen & thompson (1992). to this end, sixty written narratives based on the picture story book ‘frog, where are you?’ were collected from efl learners and wer...