Narrative Development In A Multilingual Context

Author : Ludo Verhoeven,Sven Strömqvist
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027297327

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Narrative Development in a Multilingual Context by Ludo Verhoeven,Sven Strömqvist Pdf

In this volume, the results of a number of empirical studies of the development of narrative construction within a multilingual context are presented and discussed. It is explored what operating principles underlie the process of narrative production in L1 and L2. Developmental relations between form and function will be studied across a broad range of functional categories, such as temporality, perspective, connectivity, and narrative coherence. Moreover, a variety of language contact situations is considered with broad variation in the typological distances between the languages in order to enable cross-linguistic comparison. The analysis of learner data in various cross-linguistic settings may thus offer new information on the role of the structural properties of unrelated languages on the process of narrative acquisition. In the present volume, an attempt is also made to find out how transfer from one language to the other is facilitated. Finally, the effects of input on narrative construction in children’s first and second language are examined in several studies.

Author : Ludo Th Verhoeven,Sven Strömqvist
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027241341

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Narrative Development in a Multilingual Context by Ludo Th Verhoeven,Sven Strömqvist Pdf

In this volume, the results of a number of empirical studies of the development of narrative construction within a multilingual context are presented and discussed. It is explored what operating principles underlie the process of narrative production in L1 and L2. Developmental relations between form and function will be studied across a broad range of functional categories, such as temporality, perspective, connectivity, and narrative coherence. Moreover, a variety of language contact situations is considered with broad variation in the typological distances between the languages in order to enable cross-linguistic comparison. The analysis of learner data in various cross-linguistic settings may thus offer new information on the role of the structural properties of unrelated languages on the process of narrative acquisition. In the present volume, an attempt is also made to find out how transfer from one language to the other is facilitated. Finally, the effects of input on narrative construction in children's first and second language are examined in several studies.

Author : Shin-Mei Kao
Publisher : Springer
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789812871916

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Narrative Development of School Children by Shin-Mei Kao Pdf

This book reports the current aspects of children from multilingual families in Taiwan and describes these children's perceptions towards their linguistic, academic, and social development from a survey study and a discourse analysis study. The discourse analysis study focuses on the narrative developments of children born to Southeast Asian mothers versus average Taiwanese children across four grade levels in the elementary school. This book is significant in four aspects: describing the children with multilingual family background qualitatively and quantitatively, including a wide range and a large number of participants, proposing new analytical approaches for child narrative research, and compiling applicable classroom activities based on of research findings. The cultural and linguistic background of the children described in this book may be of interest to researchers and educators not only in Chinese-speaking regions, but also in areas where the phenomenon of multilingual family is becoming common in the society.

Author : Sven Strömqvist,Ludo Th Verhoeven
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Context (Linguistics).
ISBN : 9780805846720

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Relating Events in Narrative: Typological and contextual perspectives by Sven Strömqvist,Ludo Th Verhoeven Pdf

This follow-up volume to the 'frog-story studies' book, 'Relating Events in Narrative: A Cross-Linguistic Developmental Study' (1994) is divided into two main parts. Part one focuses on crosslinguistic perspectives whilst part two offers a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives.

Author : Ute Schönpflug
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783031433412

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Multilingual Text Comprehension by Ute Schönpflug Pdf

Until today, research on monolingual text processing has offered a broad spectrum of results and theoretical explanations of how texts are processed. This book extends the current trend to cover only reading comprehension by considering extensively listening comprehension. Comprehensive presentations of research on children’s listening comprehension allow for a broader developmental perspective reaching preschool years. Although text comprehension is the essence of learning in educational settings, and children are confronted continuously with the challenge of getting information from texts, comprehensive publications on children’s text comprehension are scarce. The author posits that a comprehensive review of children’s comprehension processes has to analyze the development of fundamental cognitive processes involved in comprehension. Therefore, this book covers the impact of working and long-term memory, metamemory, inference making, and gist building on comprehension performance. The role of first and multilingual language proficiency and tasks on specific component processes of text comprehension are discussed. Research results concerning the function of multilingual proficiency and tasks in text comprehension are complemented by the author’s own published and unpublished research. Theoretical considerations lead to models attempting to cover aspects of multilingual text comprehension. The aim of the book is to present a state-of-the-art overview of the field to inform researchers and students of various disciplines and practitioners to improve their understanding of how to foster multilingual text comprehension.

Author : Ludo Verhoeven,Sven Stromqvist
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135621063

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Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2 by Ludo Verhoeven,Sven Stromqvist Pdf

Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2: Typological and Contextual Perspectives edited by Sven Strömqvist and Ludo Verhoeven, is the much anticipated follow-up volume to Ruth Berman and Dan Slobin's successful "frog-story studies" book, Relating Events in Narrative: A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study (1994). Working closely with Ruth Berman and Dan Slobin, the new editors have brought together a wide range of scholars who, inspired by the 1994 book, have all used Mercer Mayer's Frog, Where Are You? as a basis for their research. The new book, which is divided into two parts, features a broad linguistic and cultural diversity. Contributions focusing on crosslinguistic perspectives make up the first part of the book. This part is concluded by Dan Slobin with an analysis and overview discussion of factors of linguistic typology in frog-story research. The second part offers a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, all dealing with contextual variation of narrative construction in a wide sense: variation across medium/modality (speech, writing, signing), genre variation (the specific frog story narrative compared to other genres), frog story narrations from the perspective of theory of mind, and from the perspective of bilingualism and second language acquisition. Several of the contributions to the new book manuscript also deal with developmental perspectives, but, in distinction to the 1994 book, that is not the only focused issue. The second part is initiated by Ruth Berman with an analysis of the role of context in developing narrative abilities. The new book represents a rich overview and illustration of recent advances in theoretical and methodological approaches to the crosslinguistic study of narrative discourse. A red thread throughout the book is that crosslinguistic variation is not merely a matter of variation in form, but also in content and aspects of cognition. A recurrent perspective on language and thought is that of Dan Slobin's theory of "thinking for speaking," an approach to cognitive consequences of linguistic diversity. The book ends with an epilogue by Herbert Clark, "Variations on a Ranarian Theme."

Author : Ute Bohnacker,Natalia Gagarina
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260345

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Developing Narrative Comprehension by Ute Bohnacker,Natalia Gagarina Pdf

Comprehension of texts and understanding of questions is a cornerstone of successful human communication. Whilst reading comprehension has been thoroughly investigated in the last decade, there is surprisingly little research on children’s comprehension of picture stories, particularly for bilinguals. This can be partially explained by the lack of cross-culturally robust, cross-linguistic instruments targeting early narration. This book presents an inference-based model of narrative comprehension and a tool that grew out of a large-scale European project on multilingualism. Covering a range of language settings, the book uses the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives to answer the question which narrative comprehension skills (bilingual) children can be expected to master at a certain age, and explores how such comprehension is affected (or not affected) by linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. Linking theory to method, the book will appeal to researchers in linguistics and psychology and graduate students interested in narrative, multilingualism, and language acquisition.

Author : Ruth A. Berman,Dan Issac Slobin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1389 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317778042

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Relating Events Narrative Set by Ruth A. Berman,Dan Issac Slobin Pdf

This volume represents the culmination of an extensive research project that studied the development of linguistic form/function relations in narrative discourse. It is unique in the extent of data which it analyzes--more than 250 texts from children and adults speaking five different languages--and in its crosslinguistic, typological focus. It is the first book to address the issue of how the structural properties and rhetorical preferences of different native languages--English, German, Spanish, Hebrew, and Turkish--impinge on narrative abilities across different phases of development. The work of Berman and Slobin and their colleagues provides insight into the interplay between shared, possibly universal, patterns in the developing ability to create well-constructed, globally organized narratives among preschoolers from three years of age compared with school children and adults, contrasted against the impact of typological and rhetorical features of particular native languages on how speakers express these abilities in the process of "relating events in narrative." This volume also makes a special contribution to the field of language acquisition and development by providing detailed analyses of how linguistic forms come to be used in the service of narrative functions, such as the expression of temporal relations of simultaneity and retrospection, perspective-taking on events, and textual connectivity. To present this information, the authors prepared in-depth analyses of a wide range of linguistic systems, including tense-aspect marking, passive and middle voice, locative and directional predications, connectivity markers, null subjects, and relative clause constructions. In contrast to most work in the field of language acquisition, this book focuses on developments in the use of these early forms in extended discourse--beyond the initial phase of early language development.

Author : Li Wei,Melissa G. Moyer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781119492214

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The Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism by Li Wei,Melissa G. Moyer Pdf

As globalization has increased awareness of the extent of language contact and linguistic diversity, questions concerning bilingualism and multilingualism have taken on an increasing importance from both practical and scholarly points of view. Written by leading experts and practitioners in the field, The Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism: Highlights the interdisciplinary nature of research on bilingualism and multilingualism and offers a practical guide to the procedures and tools for collecting and analyzing data Specifically addresses methodological issues, discussing research topics, core concepts and approaches, and the methods and techniques available Links theory to method, and to data, and answers a real need for a know-how volume on bilingualism and multilingualism that deals with its methodology in a systematic and coherent way

Author : Xiao-lei Wang
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783094509

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Maintaining Three Languages by Xiao-lei Wang Pdf

The teenage years are a fascinating time in the life of any family, but what happens when the challenges of parenting teenagers are combined with the desire to help your children build on their multilingual abilities? In this follow-up to Growing up with Three Languages: Birth to Eleven, Xiao-lei Wang offers a unique insight into the dynamics of a multilingual family. She combines practical, evidence-based advice with rich detail from observations of her own family to offer support and inspiration on an aspect of multilingual parenting that has received comparatively little attention. By placing language within the wider context of teenagers’ cognitive and social development, this book will enable parents everywhere to help and guide their children through the next step in their multilingual journey.

Author : María del Pilar García Mayo
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783098125

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Learning Foreign Languages in Primary School by María del Pilar García Mayo Pdf

This book presents research on the learning of foreign languages by children aged 6-12 years old in primary school settings. The collection provides a significant and important contribution to this often overlooked domain and aims to provide research-based evidence that might help to inform and develop pedagogical practice. Topics covered in the chapters include the influence of learner characteristics on word retrieval; explicit second language learning and language awareness; meaning construction; narrative oral development; conversational interaction and how it relates to individual variables; first language use; feedback on written production; intercultural awareness raising and feedback on diagnostic assessment. It will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, teachers and stakeholders who are interested in research on how children learn a second language at primary school.

Author : Christine Möller
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783823369035

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Young L2 learners’ narrative discourse by Christine Möller Pdf

Author : Seda Yilmaz Wörfel
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783830995425

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Adverbial Relations in Turkish-German Bilingualism by Seda Yilmaz Wörfel Pdf

The Turkish language in diaspora is in process of change due to different language constellations of immigrants and the dominance of majority languages. This led to a great interest in various research areas, particularly in linguistics. Against this background, this study focuses on developmental change in the use of adverbial clause-combining constructions in Turkish-German bilingual students' oral and written text production. It illustrates the use of non-finite constructions and some unique alternative strategies to express adverbial relations with authentic examples in Turkish and German. The findings contribute to a better understanding of how bilingual competencies vary in expressing adverbial relations depending on language contact and extra-linguistic factors. Dr. Seda Yilmaz Wörfel completed a Ph.D. in German linguistics at the University of Potsdam, Germany. She works as a research associate at the Mercator-Institute for Literacy and Language Education at the University of Cologne. Her research interests are Turkish-German Bilingualism, Second Language Acquisition, Multiliteracy and Language Contact.

Author : Xiao-lei Wang
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780470674307

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Understanding Language and Literacy Development by Xiao-lei Wang Pdf

Understanding Language and Literacy Development: Diverse Learners in the Classroom offers effective supporting strategies to address the cultural and linguistic diversity of students in contemporary classrooms. Discusses learners with different linguistic abilities—infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence—by suggesting effective ways to reach them based on their strengths and needs Emphasizes language and literacy supporting strategies in a variety of everyday classroom settings Includes activities and questions to motivate readers to think and develop their own perspectives on language and literacy development Considers a variety of different language acquisition experiences, including monolingual, multilingual, and language impairment Discusses different types of literacies, including digital and hypertext Connects language and literacy development to identity and motivation to contextualize learning styles for pre-service teachers Supported by a companion website that includes additional resources such as PowerPoint presentations by chapter and a summary of relevant information from the Common Core K–12 English Language Arts Standards

Author : Edy Veneziano,Ageliki Nicolopoulou
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262912

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Narrative, Literacy and Other Skills by Edy Veneziano,Ageliki Nicolopoulou Pdf

In recent years, narrative skills have been receiving increasing attention from researchers for their relevance in the development of language, literacy and socio-cognitive abilities. This volume brings together studies focusing on two key issues in the development of children’s narrative skills. The first part of the Volume addresses the issue of the interrelatedness between narrative skills and literacy, language and socio-cognitive development, as well as of the impact of narrative practices on the promotion of these different skills. The second part of the Volume addresses the issue of how early interactional experiences, particular contextual settings and specific intervention procedures, can help children promote their narrative skills. The studies span a wide age range, from toddlers to late elementary school children, concern different languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew and Italian), and consider narrative skills and practices from a rich variety of theoretical and methodological approaches.