narrative task

collocation in English

meaningsofnarrativeandtask

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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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task
noun
uk
/tɑːsk/
us
/tæsk/
a piece of work to be done, especially one done regularly, unwillingly, or ...
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(Definition ofnarrativeandtaskfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofnarrative task

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For example, it is possible to control for the child's behavior during thenarrativetaskand examine the unique importance of themes or coherence.
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They enjoyed thenarrativetaskmore, and this affected the complexity of their descriptions.
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While the oralnarrativetaskrepresented a significant departure from conversational discourse, the students produced their respective narratives under a less "autonomous" condition.
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Data were collected with the help of a number of formal tests and anarrativetask.
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As a response to the ' open prompt ' in the fictionalnarrativetask, the child told the story of his/her favourite film, television programme.
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Only the oralnarrativetaskshowed an upward trend from second to sixth grade in both languages for the sample as a whole.
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A second limitation of the current study concerns the nature of thenarrativetaskon which analyses were based.
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Various measures derived from anarrativetaskserved as criteria.
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The same conspicuous imbalance in lexical/ language choice was also evident in the oralnarrativetask.
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Again, comparisons with the oralnarrativetaskwere not significant.
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In contrast to the oralnarrativetask, the graphic display provided only minimal context support.
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Bilingual narration raises questions about the effects on thenarrativetaskof the different structural options presented by each of a speaker's languages.
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In contrast, in the personalnarrativetask(both open-ended and structured), the likelihood that the child's rendition of the narrative was not the first increases greatly.
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There, the output for the decision-making task yielded the highest levels of complexity, followed by the personal exchange, leaving the output of thenarrativetaskthe least complex. 15.
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To minimize these undesirable factors in thenarrativetask, we used a procedure in which the parents tape recorded their child's speech at home according to our instructions.
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A major implication of this finding is that conclusions regarding children's narrative competence should not be drawn on analyses of only one type ofnarrativetask.
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Carey takes on the difficultnarrativetaskof integrating the often contradictory historical consciousnesses expressed through individual memories within a framework that speaks to the regional tradition of academic historiography.
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An initial warm-up conversation was followed by four narrative tasks in which the child was expected to produce at least one narrative.
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Finally, we move to the dimension of children's behavior during the narrative tasks.
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Furthermore, even three-year-olds were quite successful in recognizing identical wording, more so in nursery rhymes than in the narrative tasks.
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