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Graduate Student Discourse About Literacy Strategies, Pamela Reese Mar 2016

Graduate Student Discourse About Literacy Strategies, Pamela Reese

Pamela Reese

No abstract provided.


Mutuality As A Supervision Tool For Struggling Csd Graduate Students, Pamela Reese Mar 2016

Mutuality As A Supervision Tool For Struggling Csd Graduate Students, Pamela Reese

Pam Reese

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An Investigation Into Supervision Techniques To Support Shy Csd Students, Pamela Reese Mar 2016

An Investigation Into Supervision Techniques To Support Shy Csd Students, Pamela Reese

Pamela Reese

This article investigates supervision techniques that enabled graduate students who labeled themselves as shy to participate in a summer clinical experience. Through detailed analyses, it is shown how peer collaboration, continued modeling, technology, and humor allowed two shy students to successfully complete the experience. The article proposes that these supervision techniques may help students transcend an intrinsic shyness.


The Comprehension Of Metaphor By Preschool Children: Implications For A Theory Of Lexicon, Barbara Pearson Jun 2012

The Comprehension Of Metaphor By Preschool Children: Implications For A Theory Of Lexicon, Barbara Pearson

Barbara Zurer Pearson

Comprehension of metaphor in preschoolers was studied through an elicited repetition task. Subjects were 52 children ages 3;0 to 5;2. Repetition performance on metaphors was compared to repetitions of semantically well-formed literal sentences as well as semantically anomalous sentences, all matched for length, vocabulary and sentence structure. Accuracy on literal and metaphoric stimuli were comparable and both were significantly better than performance on anomalous sentences. There were no effects for age or sex. It was shown that the metaphors were not semantically anomalous to the children and that they were processed on a par with literal language. The argument is …