MAIN: multilingual assessment instrument for narratives

Autor/innen

  • Natalʹja Vladimirovna Gagarina
  • Daleen Klop
  • Sari Kunnari
  • Koula Tantele
  • Taina Välimaa
  • Ingrida Balčiūnienė
  • Ute Bohnacker
  • Joel Walters

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.56.2019.414

Abstract

The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) was designed in order to assess narrative skills in children who acquire one or more languages from birth or from early age. MAIN is suitable for children from 3 to 10 years and evaluates both comprehension and production of narratives. Its design allows for the assessment of several languages in the same child, as well as for different elicitation modes: Model Story, Retelling, and Telling. MAIN contains four parallel stories, each with a carefully designed six-picture sequence. The stories are controlled for cognitive and linguistic complexity, parallelism in macrostructure and microstructure, as well as for cultural appropriateness and robustness. The instrument has been developed on the basis of extensive piloting with more than 550 monolingual and bilingual children aged 3 to 10, for 15 different languages and language combinations. Even though MAIN has not been norm-referenced yet, its standardized procedures can be used for evaluation, intervention and research purposes. MAIN is currently available in the following languages: English, Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Bulgarian, Croatian, Cypriot Greek, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Icelandic, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Standard Arabic, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Welsh.

 

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2019

Zitationsvorschlag

Gagarina, Natalʹja Vladimirovna, Daleen Klop, Sari Kunnari, Koula Tantele, Taina Välimaa, Ingrida Balčiūnienė, Ute Bohnacker, und Joel Walters. 2019. „MAIN: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives“. ZAS Papers in Linguistics 56 (Januar):155. https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.56.2019.414.