TY  - CHAP
A1  - Haake, Kristin
T1  - The macrostructure of elicited narratives by bilingual children: an analysis of the factor Age of Onset
T2  - Narrative texts by children and adults: insights into their organization through a prism of language system and environmental factors ; ZASPiL ; 62
N2  - In this paper, data from a current study on bilingual language acquisition and language promotion of children is presented. 96 narratives from 32 Turkish-German and Russian-German bilingual children were examined with regard to the acquisition of narrative ability in three rounds of tests. The macrostructure of each narrative was evaluated based on the theories of Westby (2005), Stein and Glenn (1977) and Gagarina et al. (2012). In the quantitative analysis, the factor age of onset (AoO) was considered and therefore, two hypotheses were introduced: 1) There is an influence of AoO on the narrative ability of L2 German bilingual children. And 2) The narrative ability will converge over time and after three years there will be no difference between the groups. Neither of those hypotheses could be confirmed by the examined narrative data. Hence, other influences on narrative ability were discussed in the last chapter and prospects for further research were given. In sum, the article shows that more narrative data of these children should be collected to make a comprehensive conclusion about the influence of AoO on narrative ability.
KW  - Erzählen, pragm.
KW  - Spracherwerb, biling.
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51158
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-511583
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 62
SP  - 7
EP  - 31
PB  - Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
CY  - Berlin
ER  -