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摘要：This article is part of a study that examined the narratives of 19 Indian women about the impact of Hindi or English medium education on their lives. In the current article, an interview segment containing a hypothetical narrative recounted by one of these participants, Aditi, is analysed. The analysis uses conversation analysis (CA) tools to reveal the presence of conflicting Discourses regarding the value attached to English speakers by the two interactants. One of these leads to significant trouble in the talk that is attended to by Aditi through recounting a hypothetical narrative to justify her perspective. The study shows how the two planes of the narrative-the narrated world and the interactional narrating plane-are used by Aditi to critique hegemonic Discourses about English speakers. A CA-based sequential analysis reveals the embedding of the narrative in its local interactional setting while also displaying that the act of narration can be a site for the enactment of resistance to societal Discourses. Adapted from the source document

摘要：This study presents an investigation of oral narratives collected from heritage Egyptian and Palestinian Arabic speakers living in the United States. The focus is on a number of syntactic and morphological features in their production, such as word order, use of null subjects, selection of prepositions, agreement, and possession. The degree of codeswitching in their narratives was also investigated. The goal was to gain some insights into the Arabic linguistic competence of this group of speakers. The results show that although Arabic heritage speakers display significant competence in their heritage colloquial varieties, there are gaps in that knowledge. There also seems to be significant transfer from English, their dominant language. Adapted from the source document

摘要：Pictures are widely used to elicit expressive language skills, and pictures must be established as parallel before changes in ability can be demonstrated by assessment using pictures prompts. Why parallel prompts are required and what it is necessary to do to ensure that prompts are in fact parallel is not widely known. To date, evidence of equivalence has been documented for only a handful of picture instruments. The present study aims to demonstrate that two picture series, one describing hiking on a mountain, the other a picnic at a beach, designed to elicit narrative writing from children, are statistically parallel. To verify their being parallel, a random group design and a covariate were used. MANCOVA and confirmatory factor analysis confirmed that the two alternate picture forms were parallel in terms of means, variances, and factor structures with regard to multiple writing components. This study makes a unique contribution to picture-based assessment, first by publishing this parallel picture set and making it available as a tool for assessing children's productive skills using longitudinal designs, and second by demonstrating a process by which any other test forms, pictorial or otherwise, can be validated as parallel. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications, Ltd., copyright holder.]

摘要：Although considerable research has examined the use of literature in the second language (L2) classroom, there has been less investigation into the integration of learners' personal stories in the English as a second language (ESL) classroom. Following Wajnryb's (2003) categorizations of story as language learning, genre, and the creation of what she termed a 'storied classroom,' this study explores the ways in which learners' stories are used in the ESL classroom. Five ESL instructors and nine adult ESL learners enrolled in ESL classes at a settlement agency in Edmonton were interviewed about the practice, benefits, and challenges of incorporating personal stories into the L2 classroom. Participants perceived that story promoted language learning, an understanding of genre, and community building, while also enhancing authenticity, affect, and motivation. This article provides guidelines and recommends resources for using personal story in the adult ESL classroom. Adapted from the source document

摘要：Psychological research has emphasized the importance of narrative for a person's sense of self. Building a coherent narrative of past events is one objective of psychotherapy. However, in guided self-help therapy the patient has to develop this narrative autonomously. Identifying patients' narrative skills in relation to psychological distress could provide useful information about their suitability for self-help. The aim of this study was to explore whether the syntactic integration of clauses into narrative in texts written by prospective psychotherapy patients was related to mild to moderate psychological distress. Cross-clausal syntax of texts by 97 people who had contacted a primary care mental health service was analyzed. Severity of symptoms associated with mental health difficulties was assessed by a standardized scale (Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation outcome measure). Cross-clausal syntactic integration was negatively correlated with the severity of symptoms. A multiple regression analysis confirmed that the use of simple sentences, finite complement clauses, and coordinated clauses was associated with symptoms (R2 = .26). The results suggest that the analysis of cross-clausal syntax can provide information on patients' narrative skills in relation to distressing events and can therefore provide additional information to support treatment decisions. Adapted from the source document

摘要：This study was an examination of the relationship of lexical richness to the quality of English as a second language (ESL) learners' oral narratives. A computational system was designed to automate the measurement of 3 dimensions of lexical richness, that is, lexical density, sophistication, and variation, using 25 different metrics proposed in the language acquisition literature. This system was used to analyze large-scale data from the Spoken English Corpus of Chinese Learners (Wen, Wang, & Liang, 2005) together with the vocd utility of the Computerized Language Analysis programs (MacWhinney, 2000), which offers an additional measure of lexical variation, the D measure (Malvern, Richards, Chipere, & Duran, 2004; McKee, Malvern, & Richards, 2000). This comprehensive analysis allowed us to identify measures that correlate strongly with the raters' judgments of the quality of ESL learners' oral narratives, as well as to understand the relationships among these measures. This research provides ESL teachers and researchers with a robust tool for assessing the lexical richness of ESL language samples and insights into how lexical richness measures may be effectively used as indices of the quality of ESL learners' speaking task performance. Adapted from the source document

摘要：In introducing this issue of TESOL Quarterly on narrative research in TESOL, Barkhuizen describes the concept of narrative knowledging and continues with a discussion of narrative (co)construction, analysis, and reporting, integrating into the discussion research issues related to TESOL narrative research interrogated by the journal's authors. Adapted from the source document

摘要：This article highlights the challenges awaiting the TESOL narrative researcher once a narrative inquiry has been established and the data have been gathered, as it is noted that there are challenges specific to the reporting and publishing of narrative inquiry that seem to differ from those encountered in other methods. This article explores the ways in which these challenges may impact later stages of narrative research, including the difficulties and ethical challenges of reaching a definitive version of events, and the issues relating to publication. Adapted from the source document

摘要：Narrative research in TESOL can provide insight into long-term language learning experiences that cannot be investigated in real time. Benson addresses two problems due to reliance on retrospection through the concept of language learning centers. The first problem concerns the duration of experiences described in narrative data, and the second problem concerns the status of first-person narratives as accounts of actual language learning processes. Adapted from the source document

摘要：Narratives are often overlooked in workplace talk, but they contribute in crucial ways to relationship building and identity construction in workplace interaction. In this article we analyse narratives told by skilled migrants from non-English-speaking backgrounds during a workplace internship conducted as part of a Workplace Communication course. The analysis adopts a social constructionist stance recognising that narratives are co-constructed between interactants in ongoing interaction. Although earlier TESOL research has made use of narratives as a source of information for designing teaching programmes and for improving specific linguistic features of fluency, this article demonstrates that narratives also provide (ESOL) teachers with an opportunity to empower students in their efforts to negotiate high-stakes environments such as workplace settings. Adapted from the source document

摘要：Within the field of second language teacher education (SLTE), narrative has largely functioned as a vehicle for teacher inquiry, based on the assumption that such inquiry will ultimately bring about productive change in teachers and their teaching practices. Less attention has been paid to documenting what this change looks like or how engagement in narrative activities fosters teacher professional development. From a Vygotskian sociocultural theoretical perspective, we argue that the transformative power of narrative lies in its ability to ignite cognitive processes that can foster teacher professional development. We tease out the complex ways in which narrative functions as a mediational tool -- narrative as externalization, verbalization, and systematic examination -- in fostering teacher professional development, and we highlight the interplay between these functions by tracing teacher professional development in two teacher-authored narrative inquiries. We then turn to the centrality of narrative as a vehicle for teacher inquiry in transforming the field of SLTE itself. Specifically, we highlight various outlets, in both center and periphery contexts, where the products of teachers' narrative activities are functioning as a tool for knowledge-building and professional development practices that are working in consort to transform the professional landscape that constitutes the field of SLTE. Adapted from the source document

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摘要：Narratives of classroom life -- the type that blend analysis with artistry, in the form of plays, poems, stories, and the like -- remain relatively uncommon within language education research. Yet such narratives have the potential to make a significant and timely contribution to the field, given the ways in which knowledge is being reconceptualised in this postmodern, transglobal era. Here I make a case that incorporating crafted classroom-life narratives into language education's research repertoire -- within a body of work that I propose be called critical narrative studies -- can help to address the field's changing needs by further democratising knowledge production and exchange, illuminating subtle yet vital dimensions of classroom interactions, and prompting imaginative interpretations and revisionings. My argument draws together relevant strands of applied linguistics research; narrative theories and research from education, sociology, and the arts; and several classroom narratives of mine. I conclude with recommendations for enhancing the rigour and reach of studies that incorporate narratives of classroom life, in light of some important dilemmas and cautions. Adapted from the source document

摘要：Vassquez discusses the growing interest of in matters of identity in regard to TESOL, a trend paralleled in other social science disciplines, but she notes that TESOL seems to be lagging a bit behind with respect to narrative-and-identity as TESOL experts have been slower to associate narratives, especially narratives of personal experience, with an analytic method, tool, or object of inquiry. Adapted from the source document

摘要：Needs analysis plays an important role in curriculum design. In particular, needs analysis largely determines the goal and content of the course being designed. When selecting among the many tools available to analyze needs the course designer must consider practicality as well as validity and reliability. In this paper, I report on the novel use of narrative frames as a needs analysis tool in the design of an EFL curriculum for trainee seamen in Kiribati. The frames proved to be a practical tool for gathering information from a large group of serving seamen, and provided insights that would not otherwise have been possible. Furthermore, the seamen's stories could be adapted for materials design, meaning that trainees were engaged with authentic situations in their language learning. Thus narrative frames were found to be a valuable tool in the needs analysis for the new EFL curriculum and are a tool that could be used more widely in curriculum design. [Copyright Elsevier Ltd.]

摘要：This study draws on a narrative constructionist framework to examine the active representation of self and experience in second language (L2) ethnographic interviews and autobiographic narratives of immigrant experience. Analysis centers on two versions of a complaint narrative of institutional mistreatment told 2 years apart by a man who immigrated to Canada. Special attention is given to the collaborative work he and the interviewer engage in to story experience in ways that are sensitive to the interpretation of talk and matters of rationality, morality, truth, and consistency of represented characters, events, and actions. Despite similarities between the versions, the narrative teller uses them for different ends. In one version, specific events push him to anger and to goal-oriented action. In the other, this narrative is made to represent a more general position on the irrational conduct of people and his justifiable anger. Findings also suggest the usefulness of treating interviews and narratives not as one-off (Le. single or isolated) tellings, but as one in a series (whether in a single setting or across time). Adapted from the source document