The Effect of Age and Task Complexity on the Microstructure of Child Arabic Narratives

A Mahfoudhi, F Abdalla, N Al-Sulaihim - Language, Speech, and Hearing …, 2023 - ASHA
Purpose: This study examines the development of narrative microstructure elements of
productivity, lexical diversity, and syntactic complexity in the oral story production of …

Structural development of narratives in Arabic: Task complexity, age, and cultural factors

F Abdalla, A Mahfoudhi, S Alhudhainah - Language, Speech, and Hearing …, 2020 - ASHA
Purpose This study examines the effect of age and task complexity on the macrostructure of
story production in preschool-and school-age Kuwaiti Arabic–speaking children. It also …

The Relationship Between Oral and Written Language in Narrative Production by Arabic-Speaking Children: Fundamental Skills and Influences

K Kawar - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024 - pubs.asha.org
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the relationship between oral and written language
skills in narrative production among Arabic-speaking children, focusing on cognitive and …

Text complexity and variety factors in narrative retelling and narrative comprehension among Arabic-speaking preschool children

K Kawar, E Saiegh-Haddad… - First Language, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The current study investigates narrative retelling and comprehension among 30 native
Arabic-speaking preschool children with a mean age of 5: 10. Narrative features of text …

Narrative microstructure and macrostructure skills in Arabic diglossia: The case of Arab immigrant children in Canada

A Asli-Badarneh, K Hipfner-Boucher… - International …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims and objectives: The study investigated narrative microstructure skills of Arabic-
speaking immigrant children in Canada (N= 75; age range 7–12 years) with specific focus …

Narrative language markers of Arabic language development and impairment

NV Rakhlin, N Li, A Aljughaiman… - Journal of Speech …, 2020 - ASHA
Purpose We examined indices of narrative microstructure as metrics of language
development and impairment in Arabic-speaking children. We examined their age …

[HTML][HTML] Story telling in bilingual Urdu− Cantonese ethnic minority children: Macrostructure and its relation to microstructural linguistic skills

A Chan, S Chen, S Hamdani, B Tse… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction The ability to produce a well-structured, coherent and informative narrative
requires the integration of lexical and grammatical skills at different levels of complexity …

Personal narrative skills<? br?> of Urdu speaking preschoolers

SZ Hamdani, T Arshad, SA Tarar, R Kausar - Narrative Inquiry, 2019 - jbe-platform.com
The present study aimed to explore the personal narrative skills of Urdu speaking
preschoolers, aged between 4 and 5 years. The study also aimed to investigate the gender …

Between varieties and modalities in the production of narrative texts in Arabic

L Laks, E Saiegh-Haddad - Handbook of literacy in diglossia and in …, 2022 - Springer
Native Arabic speaking children are born into a linguistic context called “diglossia”, in which
in addition to the primary spoken dialects of the language there is a divergent superposed …

A Tale of Age and Abilities: Analyzing Narrative Macrostructure Development in Chinese Preschoolers Through the Lens of Story Grammar

L Shunhua, Q Tianlong - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023 - Springer
The aim of this research was to explore the progression of narrative macro-structure in
Chinese children between the ages of 3 and 6 in preschool. To investigate the narratives of …