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Shrubshall, P. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1997
To find out more about bilingual children's narrative discourse acquisition, study analyzes and compares the oral narrative discourse of bilingual and monolingual 5- to 10-year-olds in two ways. Uses Labov's taxonomy to measure evaluation, and shema theory to do an episodic analysis of elicited narratives. Argues that these frameworks serve to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Children, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis