The story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron provides a framework for presenting the merits of narrative-assisted instruction (NAI). Approaching the human mind as a pattern-making and pattern-recognizing system, NAI has special significance in three areas of learning: motivation, comprehension, and memory. By providing a cultural and contextual approach to the study of human behavior, NAI can serve as a complement to the objective, empirical methods of traditional scientific discourse.
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