Narrative Assessment

Question 1

How can a narrative be assessed informally?

Answer 1

Through a three step process: Elicitation, transcription, and analysis

Question 2

What are different types of narratives?

Answer 2

recounts, account, eventcasts, scripts, and fictionalized narratives (i.e., stories)

Question 3

Why do narratives matter?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

What are other definitions of a narrative?

Answer 4

an orderly account of real or imagined events; a coherent sequence of utterances

Question 5

Why should narratives be assessed?

Answer 5

it is a way to assess whether a child can combine different language domains purposefully while considering context and pragmatics.

Question 6

What is a script?

Answer 6

a type of narrative; general description of a typical event

Question 7

What is a recount?

Answer 7

a type of narrative in which facts of past events are elicited.

Question 8

What is an eventcast?

Answer 8

a type of narrative that describes on-going or anticipated events

Question 9

What is an account (a.k.a. personal narrative)?

Answer 9

verbalizations produced spontaneously about past events

Question 10

A SLP analyzes a narrative from a

Answer 10

macrostructural level and a microstructural level

Question 11

When analyzing a narrative from a macrostructural level, one looks at

Answer 11

story grammar (i.e., coherence and cohesion) and episodic complexity (i.e., parts of a narrative)

Question 12

What is coherence?

Answer 12

an aspect of story grammar that meaningfully connects a story’s sequence of events

Question 13

When analyzing a narrative’s coherence, one should look for

Answer 13

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

Question 14

What is cohesion?

Answer 14

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)

Question 15

What analyzing a narrative’s cohesion, one should look for

Answer 15

literate language, dialogue, creativity, propositions (story ideas), grammatical complexity, vocabulary complexity

Question 16

What can an SLP glean from a narrative analysis?

Answer 16

grammaticality, grammatical complexity, propositions, number of different words, total number of words and utterances

Question 17

Which culture tends to have a circumlocutionary style of narrative production?

Answer 17

African-American

Question 18

Which culture tends to have a slalom style of narrative production?

Answer 18

eastern european

Question 19

Which culture tends to have a linear style of narrative production?

Answer 19

The United States or Western culture

Question 20

According to Hoffman, what benefits do narrative provide?

Answer 20

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)

Question 21

Which formal assessment can be found online?

Answer 21

The Edmonton Narrative Norms assessment

Question 22

Why aren’t formal assessment in narratives used?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Regarding narratives, CLD communities may present differences in

Answer 23

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