Research article summary (published 30 Dec 2005):

English language narratives of Filipino children.

Full Abstract

PURPOSE: The current study focuses on describing the English language narrative skills of children who have been exposed to the Filipino language. METHOD: Eight children between the ages of 6;0 (years;months) and 7;7 who spoke primarily English but who were exposed to the Filipino language at home participated. Each child produced three narrative samples based on wordless picture books. Samples were analyzed for narrative complexity as well as measures of productivity and grammaticality. RESULTS: The complexity of children's narratives was comparable to that reported in the literature for monolingual English-speaking children. Grammaticality measures show use of an average of 16.55% Filipino-influenced English forms across three stories. The observed patterns of Filipino-influenced English were predictable based on the comparison of English and Filipino structures. Variability in maze use was related to the amount of exposure to Filipino. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Care should be taken to evaluate grammaticality with respect to nonstandard English forms predicted by the rules of the language in contact with English. Further, maze use may be related to level of exposure to another language and should be further explored when using such information in language evaluation.

Author information

Author/s: Lofranco, Lee Ann L (LA); Peña, Elizabeth D (ED); Bedore, Lisa M (LM);

Affiliation: University of Texas, Austin, USA.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Language, speech, and hearing services in schools (Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2006-Jan; vol 37 (issue 1) : pp 28-38

Dates: Created 2006/04/17; Completed 2006/05/11; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 16615747, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

Sourced from the National Library of Medicine. Abstract text and other information may be subject to copyright.

External Links for this article
(including full text providers, if available):

Click Electronic Full-text Provider Links to see options for finding the electronic full text links to this article. Note there may be a subscription or fee required for access to the full text. See our FAQ for information on finding FREE full text articles.

This article may also be located in paper journal collections available in many libraries. Use the Journal and Publication Information above to find the full article.

MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Child Child Language Cross-Cultural Comparison Female Humans Linguistics

Linguistics Male Multilingualism Narration Verbal Behavior Vocabulary

Related articles

These are the highest related articles currently in the database:

• [Cross-linguistic assessment of verbal production from a narrative task in Williams Syndrome] 30 Jul 2007
• Conveying information about adjective meanings in spoken discourse. 30 Jan 2008
• Children's comprehension and production of idioms: the role of context and familiarity. 30 May 1992
• The representation of morphologically complex words in the developing lexicon. 29 Apr 2008
• Lexical and prosodic cues in the comprehension of relative certainty. 30 Jan 1993
• The use of anaphoric pronouns by French children in narrative: evidence from constrained text production. 29 Apr 2005
• German children's productivity with tense morphology: the Perfekt (present perfect). 30 Jul 2002
• A closer look at MLU: what does it really measure? 29 Nov 2005
• Visual laterality effects in readers of a deep and a shallow orthography. 29 Apr 2007
• Monolingual and bilingual children's use of mutual exclusivity in the naming of whole objects. 30 Aug 2005

See 100+ related articles.

Related Article Map

Legend: - FREE Full text Article. - Abstract only. - Title only. More help.

See a large map of 100+ related articles.