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  • Developmental Psychology
  • Bilingualism Research

Background:

  • Narrative macrostructure is theorized to be language-independent in multilingual individuals.
  • Understanding how bilingual children organize stories in different languages is crucial for educational and clinical applications.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between narrative macrostructure, language exposure, and microstructure in Spanish-English bilingual children.
  • To examine how current language exposure and microstructure influence macrostructure organization in bilingual narratives.
  • To explore differences in macrostructural elements chosen by children in English versus Spanish stories.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized existing data from 62 second-grade Spanish-English bilingual children.
  • Employed two-sample t-tests to compare macrostructure and microstructure performance in English and Spanish.
  • Conducted correlational and regression analyses to examine relationships between variables.

Main Results:

  • Children exhibited comparable overall macrostructure use across English and Spanish, but varied in specific subcomponents.
  • Lexical diversity was higher in Spanish narratives compared to English.
  • No significant relationship was found between general language exposure and macrostructure, except for Spanish story structure.

Conclusions:

  • Findings support the claim that narrative macrostructure is shared across languages in bilingual children.
  • Lexical diversity is essential for expressing ideas within macrostructural frameworks.
  • Bilingual children may make culturally and linguistically informed choices regarding macrostructure components.