What is patterned oral paraphrase?

What is patterned oral paraphrase?

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Definition

Patterned oral paraphrase is a technique for creating the written text of a story by first using illustrations to prompt someone to tell the story in natural language, then writing what he or she says.

Also known as:

POP

Discussion
	POP was first used in an effort to avoid literal, unnatural translations of texts. Often translators looked at a text and translated what they saw literally or word for word. Better translations developed when local language speakers
	looked at illustrations of a story or subject heard the story that went with them or heard the subject discussed repeated the story or discussed the subject naturally in their own language then wrote down what they said.

See also
	Using patterned oral paraphrase

Context for this page:

Concept module: patterned oral paraphrase
In overview module: Glossary (Literacy): P
In modular book: Glossary of literacy terms
In document collection: Reference materials

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