Storytelling

Literature Review Overview Since the purpose of my study is to examine how multimodal storytelling affect the writing experience/outcomes of ELLs in a US college Intensive English Program (IEP) and how these multimodal practices implemented by these ELLs affect their identity construction while living and studying in a foreign culture, I am interested in finding out the writing difficulties ELLs have experienced and the non-traditional strategies and interventions that have been implemented on…

Christian Story and Our Story: Narrative Pedagogy in Congregational Life” by Benjamin Espinoza, Christian educators have known the importance of storytelling “to illustrate the theological truths” of the Bible’s stories. In his article, Espinoza tried to inform and persuade the reader of the importance of narrative pedagogy in the practice of storytelling in the Christian environment. Additionally, he wants the reader to understand the reasons for Christian educators should implement narrative…

Bryson Miguel’s “Until Something Happens” is a postmodernist, deconstructionist short story that depicts the entropic nature of language and implies that, despite efforts to apply order and meaning to our words, we are only as effectively understood as someone else effectively understands. Miguel’s story also suggests that the true significance of our stories and life experiences are often ambiguous. There is no single and objective meaning to discover, but rather the subjective act of…

children will recite the stories they learn in their own unique way as they remember them. While they are not always accurate with their recollections, retelling the stories will increase their language skills. A child day care should include storytelling to its regular daily schedule. Just before rest time would be the ideal time to gather the children in a circle either in chairs or on the floor to tell them some type of story. Stories can be about real-life people, animals and events, or…

and in the process turns to drugs. there is seen a clear pattern of need for story telling, suffering, In the short story “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin I will argue how that Sonny’s Blues implemented all three issues of suffering, function of storytelling, and the need for witness and testify, and how different types of suffering can connect together. When discussing the role for witness and testifying there is a big gap between Sonny and the Narrator views. Throughout the story their is…

and telling. Notably, the young narrator is retelling his father’s story of a young man from Canna who told himself and his twin brother their grandfather’s story. This demonstrates how Vision is metafictive and draws attention to the nature of storytelling. As the narrator explains, “it is the telling of a story about a story but like most stories it has spun off into others and perhaps no story ever really stands on its own” (MacLeod, 162). The narrator must wend his way through various…

“Nothing seems more natural and universal to human beings than telling stories. Surely there is no human culture, however “primitive”, without its stories and habits of storytelling, its myths of the origin of the world, its legends of the tribe or groups of stories about folk heroes. Linguists use the ability to narrate as a measure of advanced language competence. From our earliest childhood we hear stories and learn to repeat them.” (Hillis Miller 1). The beginning of a short composition…

dramas are used to “engage audiences, introduce ideas, and empower people to make better-informed decisions” leading to social change. In the case of East Los High, the objective is to engage young Latinas in their late teens and early women through storytelling, to inform them about health issues related to sexual health and relationships and to encourage them to make healthier decisions. Another objective is to get the audience to discuss the show and to share the resources offered by the…

Narrative inquiry is the study of life experiences and the process of gathering information for the purpose of research through storytelling (Creswell, 2013). The purpose of narrative inquiry is to increase understanding of issues related to learning and teaching through storytelling and retelling of an individual’s life story. The narrative approach is based on the premise that, as human beings, we have an understanding and meaning to our lives through stories and offers ways to simultaneously…

The different methods of storytelling available to use is vast. However, each method of storytelling may not have the same effect on a piece of work. Different methods of storytelling impact not only how one conveys meaning, but also the meaning of the work as a whole. A common method is having the story exist in a state of narrative tension, the tension a character feels about an issue or problem and the emotions that follow when he or she is blocked from a resolution. Narrative tension fuels…