in ESL reading comprehension one of may range from celebrating fiestas in latin
the areas of interest that has attracted attention
america to making bamboo flutes from the
recently is the notion of story grammar US bases in the philippines to the history
story grammar represents the internal of nigeria
structure of stories and the relationships
among the parts it consists of a set of rules story grammar can be classified as a type
governing the types of story information of formal schemata recent studies singer
that occur and the types of interrelationships
& donlan 1982 whaley 1981 have demonthat
connect the different story com- strated
ponents
that instruction in story grammar can
this notion is based on the premise help students improve their comprehension
of schema theory which takes into consideration
of complex short stories
what a reader brings to reading and
how a piece of text is written rumelhart story grammar categories
1977 mmeeyyeerr11998811 several investigators have formulated rules
for a simple story grammar the most
in schema theory a distinction is made frequently mentioned grammars thorndyke
between formal schemata and content 1977 stein and glenn 1975 mandler and
schemata carrell 1983 formal schemata johnson 1977 will be described briefly in
include the rhetorical and organizational this paper the following is a sample story
structures of stories and expository texts taken from stein 1978 parsed into story
content schemata consist of the readers grammar representations by mandler and
background knowledge about the content johnson 1977 and stein and glenn 1975
area of a text carrell 19836 content note the basic similarities between mandler
schemata must be considered in relation to and johnsons and stein and glenns gramparticular
text topics which for example mars