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Anderson, Richard C. Ma, Shufeng 2013-05-24T21:53:00Z 2013-05-24T21:53:00Z 2013-05 2013-05-24T21:53:00Z 2013-05 Instructional influences on storytelling were investigated among 210 fifth-grade Spanish- speaking ELLs. Participants received a 6-week socio-scientific unit involving collaborative group work or direct instruction, or were in control classes that continued regular instruction. Then students individually told a story prompted by a wordless picture book. The assessment of students’ story telling followed the Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts (SALT) conventions. Analysis of story transcripts indicated greater syntactic complexity and narrative cohesiveness in the stories produced by students who had participated in collaborative groups. Results were attributed to increases in quantity and quality of talk during collaborative group work. A multinomial logistic regression analysis showed that students who had participated in collaborative group work generated significantly longer chains of reasoning (many 5-7 link chains) than students who had received direct instruction (many 1-2 link chains). The results suggest collaborative group work is an effective instructional approach to foster ELL’s oral narrative skill and causal reasoning. A general implication is that speaking is more than using correct expressions. Speaking in a second language is learning to think and reason within that language. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2013-04-14T19:42:22Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 2 Ma_Shufeng.docx: 620133 bytes, checksum: 58ec17a03779132bbc5a69c07eb1915c (MD5) Ma_Shufeng.pdf: 663179 bytes, checksum: 014adfbc1d2a16e31402bdb1cbe5fa91 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2013-05-24T21:53:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 Shufeng_Ma.pdf: 694314 bytes, checksum: ca445253bf3428801a4f5c006db2163e (MD5) Ma_Shufeng.docx: 620133 bytes, checksum: 58ec17a03779132bbc5a69c07eb1915c (MD5) license.txt: 4057 bytes, checksum: 043a84626c0658daa1ff73f37ab9a740 (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/44160 en Copyright 2013 Shufeng Ma English language learner oral narrative collaborative group work multi-link causal reasoning Influence of collaborative group work on English language learner's oral narratives text Educational Psychology 1616 Educational Psychology 0210 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.A. PHD:Educatnl Psychology -UIUC 10KS0210PHD