TY  - UNPD
A1  - Gagarina, Natalʹja Vladimirovna
A1  - Klop, Daleen
A1  - Kunnari, Sari
A1  - Tantele, Koula
A1  - Välimaa, Taina
A1  - Balčiūnienė, Ingrida
A1  - Bohnacker, Ute
A1  - Walters, Joel
T1  - MAIN: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives
T2  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft: ZAS papers in linguistics ; Nr. 56
N2  - The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) was designed in order to assess narrative skills in children who acquire one or more languages from birth or from early age. MAIN is suitable for children from 3 to 10 years and evaluates both comprehension and production of narratives. Its design allows for the assessment of several languages in the same child, as well as for different elicitation modes: Model Story, Retelling, and Telling.
MAIN contains four parallel stories, each with a carefully designed six-picture sequence. The stories are controlled for cognitive and linguistic complexity, parallelism in macrostructure and microstructure, as well as for cultural appropriateness and robustness.
The instrument has been developed on the basis of extensive piloting with more than 550 monolingual and bilingual children aged 3 to 10, for 15 different languages and language combinations.
Even though MAIN has not been norm-referenced yet, its standardized procedures can be used for evaluation, intervention and research purposes. MAIN is currently available in the following languages: English, Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Bulgarian, Croatian, Cypriot Greek, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Icelandic, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Standard Arabic, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Welsh.
T3  - ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL - 56 
KW  - Sprachtest
KW  - Diskursanalyse
KW  - Erzählen
KW  - Spracherwerb
Y1  - 2012
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/34782
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-347825
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/zaspil.html
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/zaspil56.html?&L=1]
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
N1  - Es liegt eine korrigierte Fassung dieses Aufsatzes vor: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-504912


Part II. MAIN materials to be used for assessment: available online at [link s. o.]
EP  - 149
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
CY  - Berlin
ER  -