The macrostructure of elicited narratives by bilingual children. An analysis of the factor age of onset

Haake, Kristin (September 2019): The macrostructure of elicited narratives by bilingual children. An analysis of the factor age of onset. Die Makrostruktur elizitierter Narrative bilingualer Kinder: Eine Analyse des Faktors Age of Onset. In: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 62: S. 7-31

Abstract

In this paper, data from a current study on bilingual language acquisition and language promotion of children is presented. 96 narratives from 32 Turkish-German and Russian-German bilingual children were examined with regard to the acquisition of narrative ability in three rounds of tests. The macrostructure of each narrative was evaluated based on the theories of Westby (2005), Stein and Glenn (1977) and Gagarina et al. (2012). In the quantitative analysis, the factor age of onset (AoO) was considered and therefore, two hypotheses were introduced: 1) There is an influence of AoO on the narrative ability of L2 German bilingual children. And 2) The narrative ability will converge over time and after three years there will be no difference between the groups. Neither of those hypotheses could be confirmed by the examined narrative data. Hence, other influences on narrative ability were discussed in the last chapter and prospects for further research were given. In sum, the article shows that more narrative data of these children should be collected to make a comprehensive conclusion about the influence of AoO on narrative ability.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Keywords: narrative abilities ; multilingual language aquisition ; age of onset
• Fakultät: Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften > Department 1 > Germanistik > Sprachwissenschaft
• Themengebiete: 400 Sprache > 400 Sprache ; 400 Sprache > 410 Linguistik
• ISSN: 1435-9588
• Sprache: Englisch