Abstract

GOMES NOLASCO, Anny Caroline; ROGOSKI, Bianca da Nóbrega; SOUZA, Carlos Barbosa Alves de  and  PFEIFFER FLORESC, Eileen. Evaluation of Children's Oral Narratives: A Literature Review. Av. Psicol. Latinoam. [online]. 2022, vol.40, n.1, 5.  Epub Aug 23, 2022. ISSN 1794-4724.  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/apl/a.8509.

There has been little consensus on what constitutes a good retelling of a story and how to assess this essential language skill. This study reviewed studies between 2010 and 2018 that assessed children's retellings of stories to map and systematize the qualitative and quantitative measures employed. Initially, studies were classified according to the use of one of four broad methodologies: standardized assessments, narrative grammar, C-Units, and narrative scoring protocols. However, closer examination showed that this general classification obscured the fact that the specific measures might not be equivalent between one study and another. To improve this conceptual scheme, the specific measures were organized into new categories, based on different dimensions of retelling performance, such as fluency, cohesion, and inclusion of psychological elements. The application of this new classificatory scheme to studies between 2010 and 2018 revealed that the specific measures of narrative quality vary broadly and orthogonally to the more general methods employed, which explains part of the conceptual and methodological confusion present in the literature on assessment of narrative oral skills. It is hoped this new classification scheme can help to dispel some of this confusion and improve comparability and replicability.

Keywords : Narrative assessment; measures of narrative oral skills; children.

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