Bilingual Mandarin-English preschoolers' spoken narrative skills and contributing factors: A remote online story-retell study.

ABSTRACT: This study examined the spoken narrative skills of a group of bilingual Mandarin-English speaking 3-6-year-olds (N = 25) in Australia, using a remote online story-retell task. Bilingual preschoolers are an understudied population, especially those who are speaking typologically distinct languages such as Mandarin and English which have fewer structural overlaps compared to language pairs that are typologically closer, reducing cross-linguistic positive transfer. We examined these preschoolers' spoken narrative skills as measured by macrostructures (the global organization of a story) and microstructures (linguistic structures, e.g., total number of utterances, nouns, verbs, phrases, and modifiers) across and within each language, and how various factors such as age and language expe

SUBMITTER: Yang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9615547 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature