We present a corpus of 44 human-agent verbal and gestural story retellings designed to explore whether humans would gesturally entrain to an embodied intelligent virtual agent. We used a novel data collection method where an agent presented story components in installments, which the human would then retell to the agent. At the end of the installments, the human would then retell the embodied a...

We present a new corpus, PersonaBank, consisting of 108 personal stories from weblogs that have been annotated with their STORY INTENTION GRAPHS, a deep representation of the fabula of a story. We describe the topics of the stories and the basis of the STORY INTENTION GRAPH representation, as well as the process of annotating the stories to produce the STORY INTENTION GRAPHs and the challenges ...

We present an annotation method for developing a model of children’s comprehension that differentiates between their recall for the objective content of a story and inferred content. We apply the annotation method to a corpus of retellings, in which children retell the same story on three successive days. Our results indicate differences over time: on Day three, children have a more evenly dist...

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,...

While the art of storytelling has been around for thousands of years, the advent of Computer-Assisted Language learning (CALL) revived the ancient form of the story reading. This paper examines the effects of exposure to audio-visually enhanced flash stories on story retelling of EFL learners. Thirty two Iranian EFL English learnerswithin an age range of11-13 were randomly assigned to two group...

People retell events for different reasons. Sometimes they try to be accurate, other times entertaining. What characterizes retellings from different perspectives? How does retelling perspective affect later recall of events? In the current research, participants retold a story either three times or not at all. By instruction, retellings were either entertaining or accurate. Compared to accurat...

This research is motivated by the ability to retell contents of story text. Because learning model did not vary, students' interest decreased, this study focused on text with stages or processes. Therefore, writer uses inquiry teach retelling in writing. The purpose was determine plan, implement and evaluate story; knowing students folklore texts writing through model; effectiveness writing; le...

Discourse markers (DMs) are linguistic elements that index different relations and coherence between units of talk. Most research on the development of these forms has focused on conversations rather than narratives. This article examines age and medium effects on use of various discourse markers in pre-school children. Fifteen normal Iranian monolingual children, male and female, participated ...

The purpose of this study was to apply an effective learning model in increasing the ability appreciate literature while at same time interest and students SMP Negeri 14 Binjai towards literary works. research conducted Classroom Action Research (CAR) with subject 25 grade IX 2020/2021 academic year. object is rewrite contents story (rewrite), retell (retell), conclude moral message as well rel...