The narrative competence of pre-school children with a migrant background

Dossier / Travail , 2017 , 23 Pages , Note: 1,0

Philologie Allemande - Linguistique

The narrative competence of pre-school children marks the transition from orat to literate language productions so that they are an indicator for the pre-literate language skills which are indispensable for educational success in the Western-European countries. The study of Schwabl (2015) which is presented here investigates migrant children’s narrative competence to find out which language structures are the most problematic. The overarching questions of this paper are, what are the main linguistic problems of these bilingual and migrant pre-school children, which are the linguistic structures they lack regarding their pre-literate language skills and how can we develop methods to evaluate these specific skills to support their language progression. No age-based development can be noted due to the high individual linguistic variation between the bilingual children. However, the most meaningful results come from the analysis of the syntactic structures which offer the possibility to categorize the migrant children in to competence profiles.

Table of contents

00. Abstract

01. Introduction

02. Pre-school children and language
02.01. Language acquisition and bilingualism
02.02. Language and migration
02.03. Testing language skills
02.04. Narrations of pre-school children
02.04.01. Composition of the narrative competence
02.04.02. Sentence structure and connectivity
02.04.03. Reference
02.04.04. Temporal structure
02.04.05. Narrative structure
02.04.06. Orat and literate language skills
02.04.07. Pre-literate language skills and the role of the narration

03. Narrative competence of migrant pre-school children
03.01. Material and method
03.02. Narrations of migrant pre-school children
03.02.01. Sentence structure and connectivity
03.02.02. Reference
03.02.03. Temporal structure
03.02.04. Narrative structure

04. Conclusion

05. References

• Université: University of Graz (Sprachwissenschaft)
• Cours: Sprache und Gesellschaft
• Note: 1,0
• Auteur: Melanie Jankrift (Auteur)
• Année de publication: 2017
• Pages: 23
• N° de catalogue: V445630
• ISBN (ebook): 9783668820654
• ISBN (Livre): 9783668820661
• Langue: anglais
• mots-clé: Narrations, Migration, Narrative Competence, Pre-school children