Narrative comprehension and its associations with gender and nonverbal cognitive skills in monolingual and bilingual German preschoolers

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  • Carina Marie Wehmeier

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Titel des SammelwerksDeveloping Narrative Comprehension
UntertitelMultilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives
Herausgeber/-innenUte Bohnacker, Natalia Gagarina
ErscheinungsortAmsterdam
Herausgeber (Verlag)John Benjamins Publishing Company
Seiten269-296
Seitenumfang28
ISBN (elektronisch)9789027260345
ISBN (Print)9789027208088
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Dez. 2020

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NameStudies in Bilingualism
Herausgeber (Verlag)John Benjamins Publishing Company
Band61

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This paper investigates the development of narrative comprehension in monolingual and simultaneously bilingual German preschoolers, in relation to the children's gender and their nonverbal cognitive skills. MAIN (Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives) was used to assess narrative comprehension after telling (Baby Birds) and retelling (Cat) in 199 monolinguals and 66 simultaneous bilinguals. The groups did not differ significantly concerning their nonverbal cognitive skills and German language proficiency. Both the monolingual and the bilingual children were divided into three age groups (4;6-4;11, 5;0-5;5, 5;6-5;11). The narrative comprehension results pointed to significant age effects only for the monolinguals, in both elicitation modes. No gender effects were found for any group. For the nonverbal cognition and narrative comprehension measures, weak correlations obtained for both monolinguals and bilinguals. These results strengthen the idea that narrative comprehension is related to nonverbal cognitive skills of monolingual and bilingual preschoolers.

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Narrative comprehension and its associations with gender and nonverbal cognitive skills in monolingual and bilingual German preschoolers. / Wehmeier, Carina Marie.
Developing Narrative Comprehension : Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives . Hrsg. / Ute Bohnacker; Natalia Gagarina. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020. S. 269-296 (Studies in Bilingualism ; Band 61).

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Wehmeier, CM 2020, Narrative comprehension and its associations with gender and nonverbal cognitive skills in monolingual and bilingual German preschoolers. in U Bohnacker & N Gagarina (Hrsg.), Developing Narrative Comprehension : Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives . Studies in Bilingualism , Bd. 61, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, S. 269-296. https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.61
Wehmeier, C. M. (2020). Narrative comprehension and its associations with gender and nonverbal cognitive skills in monolingual and bilingual German preschoolers. In U. Bohnacker, & N. Gagarina (Hrsg.), Developing Narrative Comprehension : Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (S. 269-296). (Studies in Bilingualism ; Band 61). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.61
Wehmeier CM. Narrative comprehension and its associations with gender and nonverbal cognitive skills in monolingual and bilingual German preschoolers. in Bohnacker U, Gagarina N, Hrsg., Developing Narrative Comprehension : Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives . Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2020. S. 269-296. (Studies in Bilingualism ). doi: 10.1075/sibil.61
Wehmeier, Carina Marie. / Narrative comprehension and its associations with gender and nonverbal cognitive skills in monolingual and bilingual German preschoolers. Developing Narrative Comprehension : Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives . Hrsg. / Ute Bohnacker ; Natalia Gagarina. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020. S. 269-296 (Studies in Bilingualism ).
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