Narrative production skills of language minority learners and their English-only classmates in early adolescence.
Autor: | GÁMEZ, PERLA B., LESAUX, NONIE K., RIZZO, ANDREA ANUSHKO |
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EXPERIMENTAL design
RELIABILITY (Personality trait) CONFIDENCE intervals ANALYSIS of variance MULTILINGUALISM SYSTEMATIC reviews MULTIPLE regression analysis REGRESSION analysis LINGUISTIC minorities COMPARATIVE studies ETHNOLOGY research SURVEYS BOOKS VOCABULARY ENGLISH as a foreign language DESCRIPTIVE statistics SOUND recordings INTRACLASS correlation QUESTIONNAIRES LOGISTIC regression analysis LITERATURE reviews DATA analysis STATISTICAL sampling SENSITIVITY & specificity (Statistics) STORYTELLING LONGITUDINAL method PROBABILITY theory |
Zdroj: | Applied Psycholinguistics; Jul2016, Vol. 37 Issue 4, p933-961, 29p |
Abstrakt: | This study investigated the narrative production skills of early-adolescent, Spanish-speaking language minority (LM) learners (n = 43) and their English-only (EO) peers (n = 38). The sample was born in the United States, educated in English, and representative of low- and high-income backgrounds. Using a picture book as a prompt, students' narratives were transcribed, coded, and compared on macrostructure skills (story structure), microstructure skills (discrete language skills: vocabulary and grammar), and use of mazes (disruptions in speech). Results demonstrated that the groups did not differ on story structure. However, LM learners produced lengthier narratives than their EO peers, ones that resulted in stories that were less grammatically diverse and included more grammatical revisions and errors in prepositions. Thus, by early adolescence, EO and LM learners in urban schools may have well-developed macrostructure skills, yet the LM learners may still be developing specific microstructure skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
Databáze: | Complementary Index |
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