Global TALES feasibility study: Personal narratives in 10-year-old children around the world.

ABSTRACT: Personal narratives make up more than half of children's conversations. The ability to share personal narratives helps build and maintain friendships, promotes physical and emotional wellbeing, supports classroom participation, and underpins academic success and vocational outcomes. Although personal narratives are a universal discourse genre, cross-cultural and cross-linguistic research into children's ability to share personal narratives is in its infancy. The current study addresses this gap in the research by developing the Global TALES protocol, a protocol comprising six scripted prompts for eliciting personal narratives in school-age children (excited, worried, annoyed, proud, problem situation, something important). We evaluated its feasibility with 249 ten-year-old children from 10

SUBMITTER: Westerveld MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9377602 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature