Development of Narrative Abilities in (Re)telling a Story in Typically Developing Dutch School-Aged Children.
Purpose: The primary goal of this study was to examine the normal development of narrative abilities in children aged 4-9 years and to provide normative data for two (re)telling tasks. Method: We included 420 typically developing Dutch-speaking children aged 4-9 years. They completed tasks for story...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 69; no. 8; pp. 3738 - 3761 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=196185580&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 196185580 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10924388 1SM jtl: Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research issn: 10924388 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Aug2026 vid: 69 iid: 8 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 196185580 10.1044/2026_JSLHR-25-00468 ppf: 3738 ppct: 23 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 3MB tig: atl: Development of Narrative Abilities in (Re)telling a Story in Typically Developing Dutch School-Aged Children. aug: au: Bolk, Elske Scheper, Annette Lissenberg-Witte, Birgit Goverts, Theo Kramer, Sophia E. affil: Section of Ear & Hearing, Department of Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery, Amsterdam University Medical Center, the Netherlands Royal Kentalis and Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands Department of Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands su: Netherlands Cross-sectional method Task performance Age distribution Psycholinguistics Storytelling Child development Language acquisition Repeated measures design Grammar Research funding Multiple regression analysis Descriptive statistics Data analysis software Regression analysis Verbal behavior sug: subj: Cross-sectional method Task performance Age distribution Psycholinguistics Storytelling Child development Language acquisition Netherlands Repeated measures design Grammar Research funding Multiple regression analysis Descriptive statistics Data analysis software Regression analysis Verbal behavior ab: Purpose: The primary goal of this study was to examine the normal development of narrative abilities in children aged 4-9 years and to provide normative data for two (re)telling tasks. Method: We included 420 typically developing Dutch-speaking children aged 4-9 years. They completed tasks for story generation (Frog Story Test) and story retelling (Bus Story Test). Narrative samples were analyzed to calculate outcome measures on micro- and macrostructure. Age-related development was examined by linear regression analyses. To examine the effect of elicitation method (i.e., story generation vs. story retelling) on outcome measures, we used repeatedmeasures linear mixed-model analyses. The relation between micro- and macrostructure measures was examined by multivariable regression analyses. Results: A significant relation between all outcome measures of story (re)telling and age was found. Normative data for children aged 4-9 years were provided. There was no main effect of elicitation method on children's performance in (re) telling. However, there was an interaction between age and elicitation method for complex sentences and plot elements. Analysis showed a correlation between microstructure measures and plot structure in story (re)telling, with a stronger correlation for story retelling and in the younger half of the group. Conclusions: Between 4 and 9 years of age, there is a significant relation between all (re)telling measures and age. As children grow older, they benefit more from the provided model story in the retelling condition, leading to higher scores on complex sentences and plot structure. Scores on plot structure are correlated with microstructural outcome measures concerning syntactic complexity and grammatical accuracy, especially at younger ages. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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