Testing the Metaphoric Competence of the Young Child : Paraphrase versus Enactment. Technical Report No. 313 / Stella Vosniadou and Andrew Ortony.
In a study investigating the hypothesis that verbal paraphrase and explanation tasks account for part of the difficulty that young children have with tests of metaphor comprehension, 32 six-year-old children were read short stories that ended with metaphorical sentences. Half of the children were as...
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| Language: | English |
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1984.
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| Physical Description: | 27 pages |
| Format: | Microfilm Book |