The Development of Young Children's Productive Narrative Competence in Conversational Contexts: A Longitudinal Investigation [Abstract]

Preece, Alison

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“…Space limitations make it impossible to include anything but the briefest excerpts from the data (see Preece 1985 for multiple examples of each narrative type); the following descriptions only hint at the richness of the children's own language. Many examples of all eight narrative types identified in the preliminary classification were found in the data.…”

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“…In the following section each of these 14 classifications is defined and described and the frequency of occurrence noted. Space limitations make it impossible to include anything but the briefest excerpts from the data (see Preece 1985 for multiple examples of each narrative type); the following descriptions only hint at the richness of the children's own language.…”

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The range of narrative forms conversationally produced by young children

Preece

1987

J. Child Lang.

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Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0305000900012976How to cite this article: Alison Preece (1987). The range of narrative forms conversationally produced by young children. ABSTRACTThe productive narrative competence of three young children as revealed in their spontaneously occurring conversations recorded over an 18-month period during their kindergarten and grade one years was investigated. Almost 90 hours of the children's conversations, produced as they were being driven to and from school, were audiotaped and analysed in order to determine whether children between the ages of five and seven include narrative accounts in their conversations with each other and, if so, the nature of the narrative language produced. The subjects were found routinely and regularly to produce a striking variety of narrative forms; 14 different narrative types were distinguished and defined, six of which have not previously been reported in the literature on children's narratives. Seventy per cent of the recorded narratives took anecdotal form; original fantasy narratives occurred only rarely. A significant proportion of the narratives were collaboratively created.

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confidence: 99%