Developing Narrative Comprehension : Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (351 pages)
- Studies in Bilingualism Series ; v.61 .
- Studies in Bilingualism Series .
Intro -- Developing Narrative Comprehension -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledging our reviewers -- Cross-linguistic development of narrative comprehension from A to Z -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Narrative comprehension and how it can be understood -- 2.1 Theoretical background -- 2.2 Comprehension of stories in different modalities -- 3. Our model of inference-based visual narrative comprehension -- 4. The MAIN materials -- 4.1 Background: The 'birth' of MAIN -- 4.2 The picture stories -- 4.3 The MAIN comprehension task -- 4.4 Assessing narrative comprehension with MAIN -- 5. The contributions of the book -- 6. Narrative comprehension outcomes -- 6.1 Steep increase with age initially -- 6.2 Reaching a milestone by age 5 -- 6.3 Variation at earlier ages -- 6.4 Similarity in narrative comprehension in bilinguals' two languages -- 6.5 Factors affecting narrative comprehension -- 6.6 Putting our tool to the test -- 7. Conclusion -- Funding -- References -- Narrative comprehension in Lebanese Arabic-French bilingual children -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Lebanon's multilingual context and the challenges for language assessment -- 1.2 Development of narrative comprehension -- 1.3 Factors involved in the development of narrative comprehension -- 2. Objectives -- 3. Method -- 3.1 Participants -- 3.2 Materials -- 3.3 Procedures -- 3.4 Narrative measures -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Development of narrative comprehension in Lebanese Arabic and French -- 4.2 Comparison of narrative comprehension in Lebanese Arabic and French -- 4.3 Development of comprehension skills in relation with the development of story structure and story complexity -- 4.4 Development of comprehension skills in relation with language dominance and with exposure to stories -- 5. Discussion. 5.1 Development of narrative comprehension in Lebanese Arabic and French -- 5.2 Comparison of comprehension skills of children in both languages -- 5.3 Development of narrative comprehension in relation with production -- 5.4 Development of comprehension skills in relation with language dominance, expressive vocabulary, and exposure to stories -- 6. Conclusion and clinical implications -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix A. Items included in the Exposure to Narratives Index (ENI) -- Appendix B. -- Inferential comprehension, age and language: How Swedish-German bilingual preschoolers understand picture-based stories -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 General findings -- 2.2 Comprehension in MAIN -- 3. Aim and research questions -- 4. Methods -- 4.1 Participants -- 4.2 Materials -- 4.3 Procedure -- 4.4 Scoring and categorization of the comprehension questions -- 5. Results -- 5.1 Comprehension scores: Differences between age groups, tasks and languages -- 5.2 Comprehension scores: Effect of expressive vocabulary knowledge -- 5.3 The performance of individual children -- 5.4 Different comprehension questions -- 6. Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Funding -- References -- Bilingual Turkish-Swedish children's understanding of MAIN picture sequences: Individual variation, age, language and task effects -- 1. Introduction and background -- 2. Aim and research questions -- 3. Method -- 3.1 Participants -- 3.2 Materials -- 3.3 Procedure -- 3.4 Scoring -- 4. Results -- 4.1 MAIN comprehension scores: Differences between languages, tasks and age groups -- 4.2 MAIN comprehension scores: Individual variation -- 4.3 Influence of vocabulary knowledge on MAIN comprehension scores -- 4.4 Performance on individual comprehension questions -- 5. Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Funding -- References. Narrative comprehension in simultaneously bilingual Finnish-Swedish and monolingual Finnish children -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method -- 2.1 Participants -- 2.2 Procedure and design -- 2.3 Statistical analysis -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Narrative comprehension: Total score on comprehension questions -- 3.2 Associations between narrative comprehension and production -- 3.3 Children's performance on the different comprehension questions -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1 Language comparison -- 4.2 Group comparison -- 4.3 Associations between narrative comprehension and production -- 4.4 Task comparison -- 4.5 Comprehension of different macrostructural components -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Funding -- References -- Narrative comprehension by Croatian-Italian bilingual children 5-7 years old: The role of receptive vocabulary and sentence comprehension -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Assessing narrative skills -- 1.2 Narrative comprehension in monolingual children -- 1.3 Narrative comprehension in bilingual children -- 1.4 The current study -- 2. Method -- 2.1 Participants -- 2.2 Materials -- 2.3 Statistical analyses -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Descriptive statistics -- 3.2 Relationships between participant characteristics and language skills -- 3.3 The role of receptive vocabulary and sentence comprehension in narrative comprehension -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1 Narrative comprehension in L1 and L2 -- 4.2 Associations between language skills and languages -- 5. Conclusion -- Funding -- References -- Bilingual children's lexical and narrative comprehension in Dutch as the majority language -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The role of the input -- 1.2 Comparisons of bilingual and monolingual children: Lexicon -- 1.3 Comparisons of bilingual and monolingual children: Narration -- 1.4 The current research -- 2. Method -- 2.1 Participants -- 2.2 Measures and materials -- 2.3 Procedures. 2.4 Data-analysis -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Research question 1: Comparing bilingual and monolingual children -- 3.2 Research question 2: Comparing bilingual Tarifit-Dutch and Turkish-Dutch children -- 3.3 Research question 3: The role of input in the bilingual samples -- 4. Discussion and conclusion -- 4.1 Lexical and narrative comprehension: Bilinguals versus monolinguals -- 4.2 Lexical and narrative comprehension: Variation within a bilingual sample -- 4.3 Clinical and educational implications -- 4.4 Limitations of the study and future research -- 4.5 Conclusions -- Funding -- References -- Appendix 1. Listening comprehension, sum of points per question (number of children who received this question) -- Appendix 1. Listening comprehension, sum of points per question (number of children who received this question) -- Appendix 2. Generated story comprehension (sum of points per question), sum of points per question (number of children who received this question) -- Why do you think the boy would be unhappy if he saw what the cat was eating?: Comprehension of German narratives in Russian- and Turkish-German bilingual children -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aims and research questions -- 3. Method -- 3.1 Participants -- 3.2 Materials -- 3.3 Procedure -- 3.4 Statistical analysis -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Total scores for comprehension questions -- 4.2 Comprehension questions with regard to the age group and elicitation mode -- 4.3 An in-depth analysis of goals and internal states -- 4.4 A quantitative note on examples from our dataset -- 5. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- Narrative comprehension and its associations with gender and nonverbal cognitive skills in monolingual and bilingual German preschoolers -- 1. Narrative skills -- 1.1 Narrative comprehension -- 1.2 Research on nonverbal cognitive skills and narrative comprehension. 1.3 Research on gender and narrative comprehension -- 2. The present study -- 3. Methods -- 3.1 Participants -- 3.2 Main -- 3.3 Cpm -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Narrative comprehension -- 4.2 Impact of nonverbal cognitive skills on narrative comprehension -- 4.3 Impact of gender on narrative comprehension -- 5. Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Bilingualism effects in the narrative comprehension of children with Developmental Language Disorder and L2-Greek: Links with language, executive function and Theory of Mind -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Narrative comprehension and language ability -- 1.2 Narrative comprehension and executive functions -- 1.3 Narrative comprehension and Theory of Mind -- 2. Aims and research questions -- 3. Method -- 3.1 Participants -- 3.2 General procedure -- 3.3 Materials and procedure -- 3.4 Analysis plan -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Narrative task -- 4.2 Language Ability tests -- 4.3 Executive function: 2-back task -- 4.4 Online video verification first-order false belief task -- 4.5 Narrative comprehension, age, language dominance and independent language ability, executive function and ToM assessments -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- < -- Cat story> -- -- < -- Dog story> -- -- Commentary: Time travel in the development of cross-linguistic narrative evaluation -- Important -- Amazing -- References -- Index.
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Bilingualism in children-Ability testing. Picture books for children-Educational aspects. Narration (Rhetoric).