TY  - CHAP
A1  - Camus, Alondra
A1  - Aparici, Melina
T1  - Adapting the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) to Catalan
T2  - New language versions of MAIN: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives - revised / Natalia Gagarina & Josefin Lindgren (Eds.). Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft: ZAS papers in linguistics ; Nr. 64
N2  - The adaptation of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS-MAIN; Gagarina, et al., 2019) to Catalan contributes to advancing our knowledge of the development of children’s narrative skills in a diversity of languages using the same protocol, making it possible to evaluate narratives also in Catalan-speakers. The adaptation of MAIN will be very useful in Catalonia, because it is a region where two official languages (Catalan and Spanish) coexist, Catalan being the language of schooling, so that most of the population is bilingual. However, currently there is no instrument for assessing narrative skills that allows for parallel assessment of Catalan in bilingual children. For these reasons, this adaptation will be of great value to promote the study of narratives in the bilingual population considering Catalan within the possible language combinations. The present paper describes the process of adapting MAIN to Catalan and reports results from the first pilot study using the Catalan MAIN.
KW  - Katalanisch
KW  - Spracherwerb
KW  - Sprachtest
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/55864
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-558644
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
SP  - 31
EP  - 36
PB  - Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
CY  - Berlin
ER  -