: How Would You Test a Child’s Ability to Narrate a Story?

Narrative development is the ability of a child to use language in telling stories, while the bilingual children are those with English as their second language after the mother tongue. Narrative development and disorder are, therefore, an impairment whereby a child experiences specific difficulties in production and comprehension of the narrative discourse, which is not deemed obvious in sentence performance and isolation according to(Reyes).

Option 2: How Would You Test a Child’s Ability to Narrate a Story?

I will test the child’s ability to tell stories through using the child’s characteristics, for instance, when my learners omit some specific links. I will know that the child’s audience is missing a clear causal relationship. The audience would be misguided in main understanding points of the events based on the child’s narration of the story. (Goldstein & Goldstein,  2012) suggest that children with the storytelling ability always possess specific links and causal relationships for their audience to follow the flow and the plots of their stories.

Consequently, the children with a good storytelling ability possess unlimited referential cohesion and introduce their stories with appropriate nouns and phrases without grammar mechanics. The children with good storytelling ability possess excellent skills and narration ability to capture the happenings of the events according to the study conducted by (Clellen & Vera, 2012 ). Golden and Golden also suggest in his research that a child with a good storytelling ability always comprehend their narratives and provides sufficient background information of the happenings in the story based on the characters actions while creating the past experiences (Goldstein & Goldstein,  2012)..

I will test the child’s ability of narration through representing and organizing the child’s experience as a teacher, and their ability to maintain the coherence or the flow of the story through noticing how they link specific linguistic statement to their account. Lastly, my child’s narration ability will significantly depend on their ability to process the higher demands posed by the narratives.

References

Gutierrez Clelen (2012 ). Narrative Development and Disorder in Bilingual Children.

Goldstein, G. a. (2012). Bilingual Language Development and Disorder in Spanish-English Speaker. Baltimore: Brokers.

Reyes, N. (n.d.). Narrative Development and Disorder in Bilingual Children: What are the characteristics of children with the narrative disorder.