ERIC Number: EJ1334949
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Publication Date: 2022-Apr
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Opportunities and Challenges in the Analysis of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN)
First Language, v42 n2 p321-329 Apr 2022
The development of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) has no doubt contributed to prompting a renewed interest in children's narratives. This carefully controlled test of narrative abilities elicits a rich set of measures spanning multiple linguistic domains and their interaction, including lexis, morphosyntax, discourse-pragmatics, as well as various aspects of narrative structure, communicative competence, and language use (such as code-switching). It is particularly well suited to the study of discourse cohesion, referential adequacy and informativeness, and of course to the study of narrative structure and richness, and the acquisition of a more formal or literary register. In this commentary article, I reflect on the five empirical papers included in the special issue. I focus on methodological challenges for the analysis of narratives and identify outstanding questions.
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Narration, Measurement Techniques, Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Pragmatics, Connected Discourse, Vocabulary, Language Acquisition, Language Variation, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Bilingualism, Literacy, Discourse Analysis, Individual Differences, Error Patterns
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