Adapting the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives to Saudi Arabic

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to elaborate on the challenges of adapting the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) to Saudi Arabic. The paper also describes a pilot study in which MAIN was adapted to Saudi Arabic and provides an overview of the research on assessment of Arabic narratives that used MAIN. Although a Lebanese Arabic version was already available, it is unsuitable for children who speak the Saudi dialect and the Saudi MAIN was therefore developed.