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Narrative Abilities of Korean Children with and without Specific Language Impairment

  • THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
  • 2004, 17(1), pp.20-58
  • Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
  • Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science

YooJung Kim 1 PAE SOYEONG 2

1호서대학교
2한림대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to investigate narrative abilities of korean children with SLI(Specific Language Impairment) and children with normal language developing. Thirty children participated in the study, fifteen 5 to 6 year-old children with SLI and fifteen normally developing children. Three story tasks, story generation, story retelling, and story comprehension, were given to each participant in order. The amount of story generation and recall, the frequency of story grammar components, the amount of inferential propositions and story comprehension were analyzed. The results of the present study were as follows. Firstly, the children with SLI produced fewer proposition of the stories during story generation and retelling than the children with normal language. Secondly, the children with normal language produced significantly more proposition in their retelling of stories than they did in the generation of stories. In contrast, there were no differences in the performance between the two tasks for children with SLI. Thirdly, lower frequency of use of story grammar components by the SLI group compared to the normal language group is a pattern to be consistent in both story generation and retelling. However, the two group's relative pattern of use of the story grammar components were identical. Overall, setting was produced foremost, then consequence and initiating event were moderately produced. Attempt and internal response were poorly produced across groups and tasks. The results were discussed relative to the SLI group's poor memory, syntactic comprehension, and ability to use story grammar knowledge.

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