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Development of narrative macrostructure in monolingual preschoolers in Germany and impact of socio-economic status and home literacy environment ...
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the development of narrative macrostructure and the impact of socio-economic status (SES) and home literacy environment (HLE) on the narrative macrostructure of monolingual preschoolers in Germany when retelling and telling a story. The analysis of narrative macrostructure includes three components: story structure, story complexity, and story comprehension. Oral narratives were elicited via Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS-MAIN). 198 monolingual children between age 4;6 and 5;11 participated (M=63 months, SD=5 months). The comparison of narrative macrostructure in three age groups (4;6 to 4;11 years, 5;0 to 5;5 years, 5;6 to 5;11 years) illustrate significant age effects in story structure, story complexity and story comprehension skills. There were weak significant positive correlations of some of these skills with aspects of socio-economic status and home literacy environment, for example between story comprehension skills and the educational ... : ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 62 (2019): Narrative texts by children and adults ...
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URL: https://zaspil.leibniz-zas.de/article/view/443
https://dx.doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.62.2019.443
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