Reynolds, Mary Ruth2014-03-142014-03-141994etd-05112006-154809http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37760This qualitative study explored young children's narrative competence, i.e. sense of story (Martinez, Cheney, & Teale, 1993). It used a combination of videotaping and interviewing to examine multiple perspectives of spontaneous child-constructed stories in the context of classroom sociodramatic play. Previous research of children's narrative competence was limited to a nearly exclusive focus upon children's individual mastery of skills such as recall and comprehension of adult selected or elicited stories (Guttman & Frederiksen, 1985; Pellegrini & Galda, 1982; Williamson & Silvern, 1991). This study utilized an alternative approach based upon Vygotskian theory (1967, 1978) to "re-vision" narrative competence as a collaborative social process. Social pretense has been called collaborative when it engages two or more children in complementary, i.e., cooperative, interactions (Howes, 1992; Roskos, 1988).viii, 125 leavesBTDapplication/pdfenIn CopyrightLD5655.V856 1994.R496Communicative competence in childrenLanguage arts (Preschool)PlayDissertationhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05112006-154809/