narrative ability
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnarrativeandability
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narrative
adjective
uk/ˈnær.ə.tɪv/us/ˈner.ə.t̬ɪv/
telling a story or describing a series ...
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ability
noun[C or U]
uk/əˈbɪl.ə.ti/us/əˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
the physical or mental power or skill needed to ...
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In order to understand growth patterns, it is essential to examine children'snarrativeabilitylongitudinally.
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However, in the present study, late talkers assessed in third and fourth grade clearly differed from comparison children innarrativeability.
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Some children displayed rapid, steady growth innarrativeabilitybut the room to develop for other children was relatively small.
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These stories are representative examples showing a pattern of steady growth innarrativeabilityover time.
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In order to fully understand the change and growth in the children'snarrativeabilityduring the preschool years, this issue should be examined over a longer period of time.
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Hernarrativeabilityenables her to draw together disparate elements from this factual material, recasting the carefully selected details to create coherent, alarming stories of family decline.
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It is reasonable that phonological awareness is critical at the "code-cracking" stage, whilenarrativeabilitybecomes increasingly important as students attempt to comprehend larger units of text.
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Specific aspects of pragmatics include discourse maintenance, use of a range of speech acts, and narrative abilities.
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Some children displayed steady development in narrative performance over age, some children exhibited little change in narrative skill, and some children's narrative abilities fluctuated across time.
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Form and function in developing narrative abilities.
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The assumption on which this study is based is that narrative abilities follow different developmental paths, depending on the type of task in which the narrative is elicited.
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These results strongly imply that children's narrative competence cannot be assessed in a single story-telling task, given the importance that task-related factors seem to have on narrative abilities.
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Orosiuss narrative abilities in forwarding this argument therefore went beyond the pessimism/optimism duality that was discussed in the previous section.
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