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I am trialling an intervention in some classrooms and I want to interview children to find out what the intervention was like from their perspective. Are there any examples of interview protocols...
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What instruments exist to measure the imaginability of a piece of writing from a semiotic perspective? I‘m aware of one that measures the ratio of concrete vs abstract nouns/verbs, but I’m...
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Are there any instruments for measuring the imaginability of a piece of writing from a semiotic/linguistic perspective? I’m aware of a quantitative measurement of word-by-word ratio of concrete...
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I am interested in possibly researching one of the following areas of children's writing: -Figurative language / imagery -Nominalisation -Sentence structure -Description / detail Are there any...
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