The present study sought to explore the impact of story maps and audio podcasts as scaffolds on oral proficiency of Iranian EFL learners. The quasi-experimental study was launched with 36 EFL undergraduates in three groups by adopting a counterbalanced 3  3 Latin squared design. All participants were indiscriminately, but in a specified order, exposed to the three treatment conditions of story ...

The way a story is retold influences the way it is later remembered; after retelling an event in a biased manner people subsequently remember the event in line with their distorted retelling. This study tested the hypothesis that this should be especially true for older adults. To test this, older and younger adults retold a story to be entertaining, to be accurate, or did not complete an initi...

When people retell events, they take different perspectives for different audiences and purposes. In four experiments, we examined the effects of this postevent reorganization of events on memory for the original events. In each experiment, participants read a story, wrote a biased letter about one of the story characters, and later remembered the original story. Participants' letters contained...

In this work we describe the construction of a plagiarism detection/text reuse corpus submitted for the PAN-2015 Evaluation Lab. Our corpus consists of four different text reuse scenarios namely, (1) no-plagiarism, (2) story-retelling, (3) synonym-replacement and (4) character-substitution. Among these scenarios the most interesting one is story retelling through it we find patterns of textual ...

Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate a listener's role in speaker's later recollection and impression the story through story‐retelling method. Two experiments were conducted, listener responses manipulated each experiment different ways. Experiment 1 examined effect attitude toward retelling, 2 studied subtle nonverbal reaction specific part story's retelling on that story. Re...

background and aim: cued speech makes speech perception easier and improves both lip-reading ability and residual hearing usage. the purpose of the present study was to assess the effectiveness of using cued speech on story retelling as a rehabilitation tool for late cochlear implanted, prelingual, hearing-impaired students. methods: this was an experimental study with a pre- and post-test plan...

BACKGROUND Although it is widely recognized that substantial heterogeneity exists in the cognitive profiles of children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), very little is known about the language skills of this group. AIMS To compare the language abilities of children with DCD with a group whose language impairment has been well described: children with Specific Language Impairmen...