Working Group 2
Group Leaders: Joel Walters & Natalia Gagarina
Telling a story, even supported by pictures, is difficult for children with SLI. WG2 will evaluate the ability of different tasks to elicit narratives and tap specifically bilingual properties. Examples of such tasks are: narratives in response to familiar and unfamiliar picture books, a bilingual retelling task, narratives without the benefit of picture stimuli, and an interactive task based on a controlled improvisation procedure. These tasks also allow for the assessment of language dominance and code-switching patterns.
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Below are the presentations of the different meetings. To access the presentations themselves- contact the authors.
Amsterdam Meeting files
Five minute presentations by WG2 members and roundtable statements from WG2 members on Theoretical/Conceptual/Methodological approaches Research questions/hypotheses transcription/coding approaches (CLAN, SALT)
Kate Cain:
Narrative assessment: Comprehension and production
Chiara Levorato & Elena Florit:
Comprehension and production of Italian as second language in Romanian and Nigerian preschool children.
Ilknur Mavis:
Use of Frog Story narration in Turkish clinical groups with SALT analysis
Joel Walters, Peri Iluz-Cohen & Sharon Armon-Lotem:
Codeswitching data from a bilingual retelling task in Hebrew–English children with TDL and SLI
WG2 - Discussion
Newcastle Meeting files
Natalia Gagarina:
Cross-linguistic typological differences in narrative studies
Joel Walters:
Modularity approaches in bilingual and BISLI narrative studies
Cyprus Meeting files
Natalia Gagarina & Joel Walters:
Narratives: Types, sampling, methods — Measuring coherence in narrative discourse
Natalia Gagarina & Joel Walters:
Narratives and discourse
Sari Kunnari:
Summary of narratives: Methodology and earlier findings
Eleni Theodorou & Kleanthes K. Grohmann:
Administering the Bus Story Test to Cypriot Greek mono- and bilingual children with SLI
Turkey Meeting files
Natalia Gagarina:
Overview
Daleen Klop, Monique Visse & Helena Oosthuizen:
Narratives in bilingual South African children
M. Chiara Levorato & Francesca Gini:
Story-telling task in L2 Italian
Ilknur Maviş:
Which determines SLI best in Turkish: Frog Story or Bus Story?
Natalia Meir & Joel Walters:
Narrative production (telling) in bilingual Russian–Hebrew speaking preschool children
Koula Tantele:
Story-retelling 'Hungry Cats'
WG2 - Final Report
ALL - Assessment Committee Diagnostic Practices Questionnaire
ALL - Bilingual Parents Questionnaire (BIPAQ)
Malta Meeting files
Carmit Altman, Natalia Meir & Joel Walters:
Story retelling in Russian–Hebrew speaking children ages 5–6
Daleen Klop:
Narrative: Macrostructure
Koula Tantele & Kleanthes K. Grohmann:
Piloting the COST Narrative Scheme
Enkeleida Kapia & Anila Kananaj:
Telling and Retelling in TD Albanian monolingual 6-7 year old children
WG2 - Narratives and Discourse
Berlin Meeting files
Susie Joffe, Natalia Meir, Carmit Altman, Shira Farby, Nadya Kogan & Joel Walters:
Macrostructure, mental states and comprehension in English–Hebrew and Russian–Hebrew 5 year olds
M. Chiara Levorato, Maja Roch & Elena Florit:
Concurrent and predictive validity of telling and retelling tasks
Enkeleida Kapia & Anila Kananaj:
Method Effects in Narratives of 6-7 Year Old Monolingual Albanian-Speaking Children
Ilknur Maviş, Gagarina, Natalia, Müge Tunçer, Özlem Ünal, Duygu Yelegen, Didem Akyildiz & Deniz Akpinar:
Administering the tell & re-tell stories to TR–DE bilingual children living in Berlin-Germany and Mo–TR children in Eskişehir-Turkey
Elena Peristeri, Maria Andreou & Ianthi Tsimpli:
Story telling and retelling in Greek monolingual and bilingual children with SLI: A pilot of the computerized method
Maja Roch, Andrea Junyent & M. Chiara Levorato:
The linguistics profile of monolingual and bilingual with and without LI
Koula Tantele & Kleanthes K. Grohmann:
Results and implications from the biSLI narrative tool: Monolingual and bilingual children in Cyprus
Ianthi Tsimpli, Enkeleida Kapia, Anila Kananaj & Maria Andreou:
Narrative insights from 6-7 year old Greek–Albanian children
Eva Valcheva, Elena Tribushinina & Natalia Gagarina:
Evaluating relational coherence in elicited narratives of bilingual Russian–German children: Methodological issues
Padova Meeting files
Natalia Gagarina:
WG2 report
Lisbon Meeting files
Natalia Gagarina:
Narratives and Discourse
Valerie Reichardt and Natalia Gagarina:
Evaluation of Comprehension Questions: Doubtful Cases
Valerie Reichardt, Olga Vorobyeva & Natalia Gagarina:
Piloting COST Embedded Mouse and Odd-One-Out Tasks with 9-Year-Old Russian–German Bilinguals
Antje Skerra, Valerie Reichardt, Katrin Reichenbach, Olga Vorobyeva & Natalia Gagarina:
Linking of Macro-/Microstructure (Study 1) and Scoring Macrostructure (Study 2)
Joel Walters:
Macrostructure, Microstructure, Mental States, Comprehension and Background Variables in English–Hebrew 5-Year-Olds
Krakow Meeting files
Natalia Gagarina & Joel Walters:
Narrative and Discourse
Daleen Klop:
Narratives – Clinical Implications