title: Cross-Linguistic Lexical, Grammatical, and Discourse Performance on Oral Narrative Retells Among Young Spanish Speakers.
abstract: This study investigated relations among microlevel and macrolevel domains of oral narrative retells within and across the languages of Spanish-speaking bilingual children. Fifty-six first and second graders (Mage = 7 years, 3 months) were assessed on a retell task in Spanish and English. Two statistical analyses were conducted: (a) correlations within and across microlevel lexical (number of different words) and grammatical (mean length of utterance-word and subordination index) domains and (b) hierarchical regression to determine the influence of microlevel domains on a macrolevel discourse score. Results highlighted a number of significant within- and cross-language correlations, and identified vocabulary as a significant predictor of macrolevel discourse scores within both languages, while grammar was a predictor within English only.
authors.affiliation: University of Oregon.
authors.forename: Audrey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lucero
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D032882:Comprehension / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D007804:Language Development; D008297:Male; D019303:Multilingualism; D011932:Reading; D014825:Vocabulary