Narrative Assessment Flashcards
How can a narrative be assessed informally?
Through a three step process: Elicitation, transcription, and analysis
What are different types of narratives?
recounts, account, eventcasts, scripts, and fictionalized narratives (i.e., stories)
Why do narratives matter?
they show one’s thinking and cognition, they are used for classroom engagement; they connect oral language to literacy; impacts social development; an exchange of sociocultural information
What are other definitions of a narrative?
an orderly account of real or imagined events; a coherent sequence of utterances
Why should narratives be assessed?
it is a way to assess whether a child can combine different language domains purposefully while considering context and pragmatics.
What is a script?
a type of narrative; general description of a typical event
What is a recount?
a type of narrative in which facts of past events are elicited.
What is an eventcast?
a type of narrative that describes on-going or anticipated events
What is an account (a.k.a. personal narrative)?
verbalizations produced spontaneously about past events
A SLP analyzes a narrative from a
macrostructural level and a microstructural level
When analyzing a narrative from a macrostructural level, one looks at
story grammar (i.e., coherence and cohesion) and episodic complexity (i.e., parts of a narrative)
What is coherence?
an aspect of story grammar that meaningfully connects a story’s sequence of events
When analyzing a narrative’s coherence, one should look for
initiating event or complication, internal feelings of the main character, character’s reaction to the initiating event, attempt to solve the problem, consequence (character achieving their goals), resolution (character’s feelings about goal achievement) and ending
What is cohesion?
an aspect of story grammar in which a story’s utterances are linked in a grammatically correct way (i.e., germaine linguistic devices and proper pronoun referencing)
What analyzing a narrative’s cohesion, one should look for
literate language, dialogue, creativity, propositions (story ideas), grammatical complexity, vocabulary complexity
What can an SLP glean from a narrative analysis?
grammaticality, grammatical complexity, propositions, number of different words, total number of words and utterances
Which culture tends to have a circumlocutionary style of narrative production?
African-American
Which culture tends to have a slalom style of narrative production?
eastern european
Which culture tends to have a linear style of narrative production?
The United States or Western culture
According to Hoffman, what benefits do narrative provide?
cognitive benefits (promote long term memory and way of thinking); social benefits (the exchange of ideas orally and in writing); academic benefits (linked to reading comprehension, helps you participate in classroom discussion, and helps you learn information from several subjects, such as language arts, math, science, social studies, and history)
Which formal assessment can be found online?
The Edmonton Narrative Norms assessment
Why aren’t formal assessment in narratives used?
testing supplies are pricey; educators and other professionals don’t value narratives; the process is tiresome and long; easier to assess it informally during other activities
Regarding narratives, CLD communities may present differences in
contexts for using narratives socially, the amount of narratives, the use of narratives to share moral codes, the expression of emotions, narrative style (linear vs circumlocution), and why they share narratives
