Beyond Chronicity: Evaluation and Temporality in Spanish-Speaking Children's Personal Narratives

Uccelli, Paola

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511815669.011

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“…This deviation served to highlight a point, include retrospection or flashback, or foreshadow an event. These findings were consistent with Rodino, Gimbert, Perez, Craddock-Willis, and McCabe (1991; in Uccelli, 2008, and Bliss & McCabe, 2008), who reported that Central American and Caribbean Latino children in New York used more evaluation and description than event sequences in their personal narratives.…”

Section: Cultural Infusionsupporting

confidence: 87%

“…We examined unique sociocultural contributions that impact children’s interpretation of the how and why of storytelling. Additionally, by including new lenses on what we examined in children’s narratives, we were able to view particular sociocultural strengths in an academic task that is traditionally examined with an eye on episodic and chronological structure as the standard (Uccelli, 2008). This analysis uncovered unique sociocultural patterns on an academic task where children may be learning a new standard of storytelling involving school peers and teacher as both model and audience.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As Uccelli (2008) stated: On the one hand, broad guidelines for understanding the narrative development of children from different cultural/linguistic backgrounds are extremely helpful. On the other hand, it is necessary to remember that each child is unique and reflects diverse experiences not always easily classifiable as those of one discrete cultural group.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In a comparison of chronicity in the personal narratives of Spanish-speaking Andean children and U.S. Midwestern English-speaking children, Uccelli (2008) found that the Andean children deviated from a sequential chain of events. This deviation served to highlight a point, include retrospection or flashback, or foreshadow an event.…”

Section: Cultural Infusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Creative and Stylistic Devices Employed by Children During a Storybook Narrative Task: A Cross-Cultural Study

Gorman

Fiestas

Peña

et al. 2011

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Purpose The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of culture on the creative and stylistic features children employ when producing narratives based on wordless picture books. Method Participants included 60 first- and second-grade African American, Latino American, and Caucasian children. A subset of narratives based on wordless picture books collected as part of a larger study was coded and analyzed for the following creative and stylistic conventions: organizational style (topic centered, linear, cyclical), dialogue (direct, indirect), reference to character relationships (nature, naming, conduct), embellishment (fantasy, suspense, conflict), and paralinguistic devices (expressive sounds, exclamatory utterances). Results Many similarities and differences between ethnic groups were found. No significant differences were found between ethnic groups in organizational style or use of paralinguistic devices. African American children included more fantasy in their stories, Latino children named their characters more often, and Caucasian children made more references to the nature of character relationships. Conclusion Even within the context of a highly structured narrative task based on wordless picture books, culture influences children’s production of narratives. Enhanced understanding of narrative structure, creativity, and style is necessary to provide ecologically valid narrative assessment and intervention for children from diverse cultural backgrounds.

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Section: Cultural Infusionsupporting

confidence: 87%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Cultural Infusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Creative and Stylistic Devices Employed by Children During a Storybook Narrative Task: A Cross-Cultural Study

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Peña

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“…Very little research has focused on the role of high-point narrative structure in reminiscing conversations and associated outcomes for children from Latino families. Nevertheless, some studies indicate that Latino children's personal narratives display elements of highpoint narrative structure (Wishard, 2008;Uccelli, 2008), which is typically associated with school discourse in children from non-mainstream backgrounds. In the work presented here, we will explore family reminiscing conversations in middle-class Costa Rican mother-child dyads to see whether 1) the constituents of high-point narrative structure emerge in their discussions about past events and 2) to explore the links between narrative coherence (as expressed in the constituents of high-point narrative structure within dyadic reminiscing conversations) and children's emergent literacy skills.…”

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High point narrative structure in mother-child conversations about the past and children’s emergent literacy skills in Costa Rica

Sparks

Barboza

Ríos

et al. 2013

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Abstract.The relationship between narrative coherence in mother-child conversations about past events and children's concurrent emergent literacy was examined in a sample of 32 Spanish-speaking, middle-class, Costa Rican mothers and their preschoolers. Coherence, as expressed in the constituents of high point narrative structure, was measured in reminiscing conversations about everyday events. Our purposes were twofold: 1) to see whether their co-constructed narratives in talk about the past could be meaningfully examined for the constituents of high point narrative structure and 2) to explore the links between coherence in these narratives and children's language and literacy skills. We found a full range of the constituents of high point structure in these conversations, with more advanced forms of narrative structure produced in conversations about the child's misbehavior. Conversations about misbehavior events were most frequently in the form of classic, high point narratives. In addition, a rich set of relationships between coherence in reminiscing conversations and children's language and literacy skills were observed. The results revealed similarities in the narrative practices found in this middle-class sample in Costa Rica to both middle-class families in other parts of the world and to conversation and cultural practices unique to Latino communities.Key words: Parent-child conversations, reminiscing, autobiographical memory, narrative, culture, elaborations.Resumen. Este estudio examina la relación entre el nivel de coherencia narrativa observado en conversaciones madrehijo sobre eventos pasados y el desarrollo de la alfabetización emergente de niños y niñas en una muestra constituida por 32 díadas costarricenses, de clase media, que utilizan el español como su lengua materna. Se determinó el nivel de coherencia presente en estas conversaciones sobre eventos pasados para lograr dos propósitos: 1) identifi car si los elementos que caracterizan las narraciones con estructura de punto álgido estaban o no presentes en dichas conversaciones, y 2) explorar la relación entre el nivel de coherencia en dichas narraciones co-construidas y el desarrollo del lenguaje y la alfabetización de los niños y las niñas de la muestra. Nuestros resultados señalan la presencia de un rango importante de elementos de la narración con estructura de punto álgido en las conversaciones analizadas, encontrándose las formas más avanzadas en las conversaciones sobre eventos pasados en las cuales el niño o la niña presentó un mal comportamiento. La mayor parte de las conversaciones sobre mal comportamiento presentaron la estructura narrativa de punto álgido. Además, se encontraron múltiples correlaciones entre los niveles de coherencia narrativa de las reminiscencias y el nivel de desarrollo del lenguaje y la alfabetización de los niños y las niñas. Como tal, los resultados apuntan tanto a similitudes entre las prácticas narrativas encontradas en la muestra participante y las prácticas de familias de clase media en otras latitudes, as...

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Book sharing and reminiscing: Caregivers’ conversational style and children's language and literacy development in low-income Costa Rican families

Barboza

Sparks

Conejo

2022

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

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Beyond Chronicity: Evaluation and Temporality in Spanish-Speaking Children's Personal Narratives

Cited by 16 publications

References 30 publications

Creative and Stylistic Devices Employed by Children During a Storybook Narrative Task: A Cross-Cultural Study

Creative and Stylistic Devices Employed by Children During a Storybook Narrative Task: A Cross-Cultural Study

High point narrative structure in mother-child conversations about the past and children’s emergent literacy skills in Costa Rica

Book sharing and reminiscing: Caregivers’ conversational style and children's language and literacy development in low-income Costa Rican families

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