Students And Stories: College Composition Students Examine Their World  

Oleh:

Murray, Margaret

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language and Education (Full Text) vol. 3 no. 1 (1989), page 13-28.
Fulltext: Vol. 03, no 1, p 13-28.pdf (982.89KB)

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This article examines the student and teacher as storyteller in a university composition class. For purposes of this paper, a storyteller may be defined as a relater of anecdotes, recaller of tales, or a teller of stories. The students were enrolled in what is considered a freshman composition class at a major Ivy League American university; however, this class was composed of some students who were older than the normal eighteen year olds who generally comprise traditional freshman composition classes in the States. The methodology was three-tiered: (1) classroom observation and participation in which the researcher-teacher used field notes as well as a personal journal of observations; (2) interviews of several students; and (3) a writing artifact in the form of a collaborative story that the students wrote at the end of the semester. To implement this type of research the instructor suggested that the students take an anthropological approach to their own classroom, in an attempt to understand their world. Research conducted in this study as well as other studies by the author, suggest that allowing students some freedom to tell their own stories, encourages learning, stimulates bonding with both the teacher and the other students, and improves writing. A provocative analysis with regard to minority students also emerges from this study.

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