Features of the Construction of Children Narratives in a Bilingual Environment
The article examines such an indicator of the development of language and culture as a childs elicited narrative. A narrative is a story created by a child based on a picture story or a series of pictures. The narrative allows to evaluate the childs coherent monologue speech. Narratives as primary f...
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Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
2022-03-01
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| author | Ekaterina Sergeevna Oshepkova Natalia Alexandrovna Kartushina Arina Nikolayevna Shatskaya |
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| description | The article examines such an indicator of the development of language and culture as a childs elicited narrative. A narrative is a story created by a child based on a picture story or a series of pictures. The narrative allows to evaluate the childs coherent monologue speech. Narratives as primary forms of cultural texts reflect a certain national and cultural specifics. In the narrative, one can distinguish a macrostructure that determines its semantic completeness and adequacy, as well as a microstructure that assess lexical and grammatical accuracy. In our work, we studied the narratives of children from Moscow, the Republic of Sakha - Yakutia (Yakutsk and uluses) and the Republic of Tatarstan (Kazan). In addition, children performed a number of psychological tests, which made it possible to assess their level of development of executive functions and non-verbal intelligence. The main objective of the study was to identify how the factor of bilingualism influences the construction of the narrative and what other factors also influence. The study involved 765 children, including 327 boys and 438 girls ( M = 77.89 months, SD = 5.22). All children attended senior groups of kindergartens in Moscow ( n = 495), Kazan ( n = 115), the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia (Yakutsk and uluses) ( n = 155). As a result of a survey of educators and a short language test, the sample was divided into two groups: bilinguals ( n = 179 people) who communicate equally in Russian and national languages; and monolinguals (586 people) who communicate mainly or only in Russian. The results of statistical processing of the material showed that bilingualism is an important factor affecting the microstructure of narratives, however, to the greatest extent, both micro and macrostructure depend on auditory-verbal working memory. This is supported by both correlations and general linear models. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5d9d1d890fd247cc80992235f16d46572022-12-22T03:13:21ZengPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices2618-897X2618-89882022-03-0119161810.22363/2618-897X-2022-19-1-6-1821041Features of the Construction of Children Narratives in a Bilingual EnvironmentEkaterina Sergeevna Oshepkova0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6199-4649Natalia Alexandrovna Kartushina1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4650-5832Arina Nikolayevna Shatskaya2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7283-8011Institute of Linguistics of RASUniversity of OsloMoscow State UniversityThe article examines such an indicator of the development of language and culture as a childs elicited narrative. A narrative is a story created by a child based on a picture story or a series of pictures. The narrative allows to evaluate the childs coherent monologue speech. Narratives as primary forms of cultural texts reflect a certain national and cultural specifics. In the narrative, one can distinguish a macrostructure that determines its semantic completeness and adequacy, as well as a microstructure that assess lexical and grammatical accuracy. In our work, we studied the narratives of children from Moscow, the Republic of Sakha - Yakutia (Yakutsk and uluses) and the Republic of Tatarstan (Kazan). In addition, children performed a number of psychological tests, which made it possible to assess their level of development of executive functions and non-verbal intelligence. The main objective of the study was to identify how the factor of bilingualism influences the construction of the narrative and what other factors also influence. The study involved 765 children, including 327 boys and 438 girls ( M = 77.89 months, SD = 5.22). All children attended senior groups of kindergartens in Moscow ( n = 495), Kazan ( n = 115), the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia (Yakutsk and uluses) ( n = 155). As a result of a survey of educators and a short language test, the sample was divided into two groups: bilinguals ( n = 179 people) who communicate equally in Russian and national languages; and monolinguals (586 people) who communicate mainly or only in Russian. The results of statistical processing of the material showed that bilingualism is an important factor affecting the microstructure of narratives, however, to the greatest extent, both micro and macrostructure depend on auditory-verbal working memory. This is supported by both correlations and general linear models.http://journals.rudn.ru/polylinguality/article/viewFile/30490/20422bilingualismnarrativeschild’s languageexecutive functionsnarrative’s microstructurenarrative’s macrostructure |
| spellingShingle | Ekaterina Sergeevna Oshepkova Natalia Alexandrovna Kartushina Arina Nikolayevna Shatskaya Features of the Construction of Children Narratives in a Bilingual Environment Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices bilingualism narratives child’s language executive functions narrative’s microstructure narrative’s macrostructure |
| title | Features of the Construction of Children Narratives in a Bilingual Environment |
| title_full | Features of the Construction of Children Narratives in a Bilingual Environment |
| title_fullStr | Features of the Construction of Children Narratives in a Bilingual Environment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Features of the Construction of Children Narratives in a Bilingual Environment |
| title_short | Features of the Construction of Children Narratives in a Bilingual Environment |
| title_sort | features of the construction of children narratives in a bilingual environment |
| topic | bilingualism narratives child’s language executive functions narrative’s microstructure narrative’s macrostructure |
| url | http://journals.rudn.ru/polylinguality/article/viewFile/30490/20422 |
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