Bientzle, Martina Eggeling, Marie Kimmerle, Joachim
Published in
Frontiers in Public Health
Background Empathic concern and perspective-taking may contribute to avoiding stigmatization of adverse health behavior. Narrative writing has been shown to be effective in promoting perspective-taking and empathy. But since narrative writing is time consuming, we tested in the present study narrative reading as an alternative, more parsimonious ap...
Yang, Xiaomin Li, Wenping
Published in
International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
Mean dependency distance (MDD) and mean hierarchical distance (MHD) are two linguistic measures used in dependency syntax studies to investigate the syntactic features of compositions written by English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. However, their applicability and validity in differentiating proficiency levels and genre effects among Japan...
Xu, Xinhui Zhan, Hongwei
Published in
Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics
Concept-based instruction (C-BI) has proven to be effective in improving students’ command of grammar items used out of context by offering the students revision lessons, but its effect in teaching newly-introduced grammar items in a complex context of a specific genre remains unclear. To probe C-BI’s effect on students’ use of the past simple and ...
Grenner, Emily van de Weijer, Joost Johansson, Victoria Sahlén, Birgitta
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Logopedics, phoniatrics, vocology
Students with hearing loss (HL) often fall behind hearing peers in complex language tasks such as narrative writing. This study explored the effects of school grade, gender, cognitive and linguistic predisposition and audiological factors on narrative text quality in this target group. Eleven students with HL in Grades 5-6 and 7-8 (age 12-15) who t...
Similowski, Kathy
Pour un enseignement de l’écrit. Faire écrire des textes à l’école de Luc Baptiste dresse un panorama général de l’enseignement de l’écriture depuis Jules Ferry et offre des propositions de modélisations. Son intérêt est de rappeler le rôle essentiel du pédagogue qui doit composer avec les singularités des scripteurs apprenants, d’interpeler la for...
Remein, Christy D Childs, Ellen Beard, Jennifer Demers, Lindsay B Benjamin, Emelia J Wingerter, Sarah L
Published in
Advances in medical education and practice
We designed and implemented a pilot introductory narrative writing session with the two-fold goal of fostering the dissemination of faculty writing for submission to peer-reviewed journals and other publication venues while simultaneously creating a framework for establishing collaborative and empathic interprofessional teams by enhancing narrative...
Khaleghipour, Mostafa Akbari, Negarin Hajaty, Saeede Shirmohammadi Fard, Sabeteh Jamalimoghaddam, Mahtab Sabzi, Zahra Asadi, Leila
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The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians
Identification of the nurses and fathers' understanding of the stress sources facilitates nursing interventions and increases parental satisfaction. The quasi experimental study with pretest and posttest was administered to a sample size of 70 fathers with preterm neonates hospitalized in the NICUs of Gorgan University of Medical Sciences in 6 mont...
Akbari, Negarin Moradi, Zahra Sabzi, Zahra Mehravar, Fatemeh Fouladinejad, Mahnaz Asadi, Leila
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The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians
Objective: This study was conducted to examine the effect of narrative writing on fathers' stress in the Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) during infants' hospitalization.Methods: A quasi-experimental study was conducted among two groups of fathers with preterm infants in the NICUs of two teaching hospitals of Gorgan University of Medical Scien...
Férez Mora, Pedro Antonio Coyle Balibrea, Yvette Solís Becerra, Juan
This study examines the correct and incorrect use of local cohesive ties and local cohesion errors in the written narratives of eleven- to twelve-year-old Spanish learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) at different proficiency levels. The study was carried out with pairs who collaboratively wrote a narrative text in response to a picture p...
Björk, Oscar Folkeryd, Jenny
Research on early school writing has focused primarily on formal aspects of writing, such as spelling, punctuation and various aspects of text structure. Less attention has been given to what distinguishes the content of these early texts and how particular disciplinary content is developed and identified. This study endeavours to examine the subje...
