Narratives in Cypriot Greek mono- and bilingual children with SLI
Date Issued
2010
Author(s)
Abstract
Narrative ability is one of the most promising ways to assess communicative
competence in children: Coordination of lexical, morphosyntactic, phonological, and
pragmatic elements is needed to produce narrations. Narratives might even serve as
a diagnostic tool for Specific Language Impairment, since children with Specific
Language Impairment are reported to have difficulties producing (oral) narratives.
Different approaches are available for narrative analysis. In the present study, the
Renfrew Bus Story Test was used to investigate narrative ability in mono- and
bilingual children aged between 5 and 10 years with typical and impaired language
development acquiring Cypriot Greek. The findings suggest that narratives can
indeed be a useful tool to identify and assess language-impaired children.
competence in children: Coordination of lexical, morphosyntactic, phonological, and
pragmatic elements is needed to produce narrations. Narratives might even serve as
a diagnostic tool for Specific Language Impairment, since children with Specific
Language Impairment are reported to have difficulties producing (oral) narratives.
Different approaches are available for narrative analysis. In the present study, the
Renfrew Bus Story Test was used to investigate narrative ability in mono- and
bilingual children aged between 5 and 10 years with typical and impaired language
development acquiring Cypriot Greek. The findings suggest that narratives can
indeed be a useful tool to identify and assess language-impaired children.