Referential Development in Storytelling and in Storywriting of Catalan and Italian Children  

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Rossi, Franca ; Pontecorvo, Clotilde ; López-Orós, Marta ; Teberosky, Ana

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language and Education (Full Text) vol. 14 no. 3 (2000), page 164-183.
Fulltext: Vol. 14, No. 3, p 164-183.pdf (281.6KB)

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Children’s use of referential expressions is far from being firmly identified. The main objective of the study was to examine children’s development between first and fifth grade in the use of referentialexpressionsin oral andwritten narratives.Westudied how children maintain and reintroduce animate entities by employing different linguistic forms,looking at the interactionbetween linguisticforms andfunctions.Asecondobjective was to analyse a new context of use, written narrative,and compare it to the oral one. The third aim was to compare the development of referential expressions in children of two Romance languages, Italian and Catalan. Results show that first grade children are already able to master the distinction between maintenance and reintroduction functions. On the other hand, even fifth grade children are not fully aware of possible referential ambiguities. Whereas no significant differences in managing the referential systememerged between the two languages, a few differenceswere found between oral and writtenmodes.However primary school children are in generalmore focusedon the narrative genre than on the differences between the two modes.

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