provided several examples of this process.

These examples show that the

use of metaplay and dialogic strategies can improve the coherence of the

emergent narratives, and that scaffolds can guide the process of collaborative
emergence widiout removing its improvisationality altogether. An awareness
of these connections is important both to classroom teachers and to
developers of software to support collaborative storymaking. Future
research on this topic should be interdisciplinary, combining method and
theory from the empirical study of conversation with developmental theory
on narrative structure and competence.

Note

1 Allplay data are from Sawyer's dataset, gathered using methods described in
Sawyer (1997).

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