The analytical task of narrative research is to convert stories into narratives through actively listening to, and interpreting, textual voices.
Effectively communicating the threat of climate change and the need to address it, reframing the perspective from a detached and scientifically-articulated problem to one of a human condition – immediate and personal – is on one level a task of narrative, or story-telling, and cultural studies has an important role to play in this and in elucidating the challenges involved.
Two types of monologic tasks were used: a narrative task and an opinion task.
The computer-delivered tasks used were a narrative task and an opinion task from the speaking section of the Global Test of English Communication for STUDENTSa (hereafter, GTEC for STUDENTS).
The transcripts used for the reliability assessment were selected randomly from each discourse task (frog story, personal narrative, magnet task, and home explanation), so all were equally represented.
For example, Bygate (1999) examined the complexity of the language of Hungarian secondary EFL learners on a monologic narrative task and an argumentation task and found that the narrative tasks might stretch the speakers more in terms of complexity of syntactic and lexical processing.
In addition, a narrative task and an opinion task were used herein; the results can only be interpreted in relation to these two particular types of monologic tasks.
Meredyth was faced with the more or less impossible task of maintaining narrative coherence while evading Production Code censure of the novel's original narrative material, which involved venereal disease, alcoholism, infidelity, unwed pregnancy, and suicide.
As seen in Table 5, during the narrative task, the participants performed better in the computer mode, whereas during the opinion task, they performed better in the face-to-face mode.
As shown in Table 5, each mean element score on the narrative task was equal to or slightly higher for the computer mode; however, the score on the opinion task was slightly higher for the face-to-face mode.
