Agnieszka Otwinowska|Karolina Mieszkowska|Marta Bia?ecka?Pikul|Marcin Opacki|Ewa Haman
Retelling a model story improves the narratives of Polish-English bilingual children
University of Warsaw|University of Warsaw|Jagiellonian University|Institute of Psychology|University of Warsaw|University of Warsaw
reading telling stories children improves narrative skills welldocumented monolinguals bilinguals investigated whether bilingual narratives improve child provided model story studied narratives polishenglish bilingual children n 75 mean age 57 years months raised uk elicited narratives picture stories two modes told spontaneously retold model provided adult experimenter bilinguals told retold stories polish english study combined withinsubject design comparing bilinguals two languages betweensubject design comparing stories told retold polish bilinguals polish agematched monolinguals n 75 investigated whether retelling might improve bilingual monolingual storytelling extent stories assessed macrostructure eg story structure answered comprehension questions microstructure eg typetoken ratio found positive effect retelling macrostructure monolinguals bilinguals regardless language microstructure retelling children told longer stories regardless language polish english group bilingual monolingual argue retelling stories improves narrative skills bilinguals