The Narrative Macrostructure Production of Spanish-English Bilingual Preschoolers: Within-and Cross-Language Relations.
The Narrative Macrostructure Production of Spanish-English Bilingual Preschoolers: Within-and Cross-Language Relations.
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DOI：
10.1017/s0142716419000419
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发表时间：
2020-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
López LM
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文献类型：
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作者：
Bitetti D;Hammer CS;López LM
尽管了解双语儿童的叙事能力很重要，但针对西班牙语-英语双语学龄前儿童的研究却很少。因此，本研究考察了双语学龄前儿童英语和西班牙语叙述中的跨语言宏观结构和语言内微观结构关系，并考察了语言优势是否影响这些关系。 200 名拉丁裔学龄前儿童的叙述被引出。微观结构测量包括不同单词的数量、单词平均话语长度和从属指数。叙事评分方案测量宏观结构。通过对表达词汇和句子理解的标准化语言测试，孩子们被分为两组：平衡主导组和西班牙语主导组。结果显示，在控制语言内的微观结构测量后，英语宏观结构和西班牙语宏观结构不相关。儿童在每种语言中的微观结构能力与其在该语言中的宏观结构能力密切相关。统治地位并没有缓和这些关系。与之前对学龄儿童的研究一致，词汇量是宏观结构产生的独特预测因素。这项研究强调了两种语言的话语长度对学龄前宏观结构的额外重要性。缺乏独特的跨语言宏观结构关系和缺乏主导群体的节制可能是由于儿童叙事的不成熟造成的。
Despite the importance of understanding the narrative abilities of bilingual children, minimal research has focused on Spanish-English bilingual preschoolers. Therefore, this study examined the cross-language macrostructure and within-language microstructure relations in the English and Spanish narratives of bilingual preschoolers and examined whether language dominance impacted these relations. Narratives were elicited from 200 preschool-aged children of Latino heritage. Microstructure measures included the Number of Different Words, Mean Length of Utterance in Words, and Subordination Index. The Narrative Scoring Scheme measured macrostructure. Using standardized language testing of expressive vocabulary and sentence comprehension, the children were classified into two groups: balanced dominance and Spanish dominant. Results revealed that English macrostructure and Spanish macrostructure were not related after controlling for microstructure measures within languages. Children’s microstructure abilities in each language were strongly related to their macrostructure abilities within that language. Dominance did not moderate these relations. Consistent with previous research on school-age children, vocabulary was a unique predictor of macrostructure production. This study highlights the additional importance of utterance length within both languages to macrostructure during the preschool years. The absence of unique cross-language macrostructure relations and the absence of dominance group moderation may have been due to the immaturity of the children’s narratives.
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影响因子：
4
作者：
BOTVIN, GJ;SUTTONSMITH, B
通讯作者：
SUTTONSMITH, B
影响因子：
2.2
作者：
DART, SN
通讯作者：
DART, SN
DOI：
10.1017/s1366728912000090
发表时间：
2012-07
期刊：
Bilingualism (Cambridge, England)
影响因子：
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作者：
Bedore LM;Peña ED;Summers CL;Boerger KM;Resendiz MD;Greene K;Bohman TM;Gillam RB
通讯作者：
Gillam RB
DOI：
10.1044/1058-0360(2011/10-0095
发表时间：
2012-02-01
影响因子：
2.6
作者：
Finestack, Lizbeth H.;Palmer, Meghan;Abbeduto, Leonard
通讯作者：
Abbeduto, Leonard
影响因子：
3.7
作者：
Gorman, Brenda K.;Bingham, Gary E.;Terry, Nicole Patton
通讯作者：
Terry, Nicole Patton