Personal narrative skills of Urdu speaking preschoolers
Saboor Zafar Hamdani | University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Tehreem Arshad | University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Sharmeen Aslam Tarar | University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Rukhsana Kausar | University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
The present study aimed to explore the personal narrative skills
of Urdu speaking preschoolers, aged between 4 and 5 years. The study also aimed
to investigate the gender differences in narrative skills, and relationship and
the predictive association between macro- and microstructure skills. A total of
80 preschoolers were recruited using two-stage sampling (convenience and
purposive). After screening the participants for intellectual functioning, three
personal narratives were collected from each participant. The results revealed
non-significant differences on the basis of age and gender. A significant
correlation was found between the macro- and microstructure skills in children.
NDW (number of different words), TNW (total number of words), and MLU (mean
length of utterance) were revealed as significant predictors of macrostructural
competencies in children. This was the first research that highlighted the
narrative skills of Urdu speaking preschoolers. Hence, the patterns identified
might help in extending the theory and research in this field.
Keywords: personal narrative, narrative skills, Urdu language, preschoolers
Article outline
- Introduction
- Types of narrative analyses
- Mean length of utterance (MLU) and total number of utterances
- Lexical diversity
- Cohesion
- The relationship between macro- and microstructural analyses
- Rationale and aims of the current study
- Method
- Narrative elicitation procedure
- Assessment measures
- Macrostructure analysis
- Microstructure analysis
- Cohesion
- Lexical diversity (LD)
- Mean length of utterance (MLU) and total utterances (TU)
- Results
- An inter-rater reliability analysis of narrative analyses, to determine agreement between two individual examiners
- Narrative analyses
- Statistical analyses
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Implications
- Limitations and future suggestions
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Published online: 02 July 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.17063.ham
https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.17063.ham
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