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Developing Narrative Comprehension: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives
Edited by Ute Bohnacker and Natalia Gagarina
[Studies in Bilingualism 61] 2020
► pp. 1–30

Cross-linguistic development of narrative comprehension from A to Z

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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Narrative comprehension and how it can be understood
    • 2.1Theoretical background
    • 2.2Comprehension of stories in different modalities
  • 3.Our model of inference-based visual narrative comprehension
  • 4.The MAIN materials
    • 4.1Background: The ‘birth’ of MAIN
    • 4.2The picture stories
    • 4.3The MAIN comprehension task
    • 4.4Assessing narrative comprehension with MAIN
  • 5.The contributions of the book
  • 6.Narrative comprehension outcomes
    • 6.1Steep increase with age initially
    • 6.2Reaching a milestone by age 5
    • 6.3Variation at earlier ages
    • 6.4Similarity in narrative comprehension in bilinguals’ two languages
    • 6.5Factors affecting narrative comprehension
    • 6.6Putting our tool to the test
  • 7.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 10 December 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.61.01boh
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