SAR SH 524 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Hand Puppet, Sociolinguistics, Baby Talk
5 Mar 2019
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A narrative is a verbal description of a past, future or ction event, aka a story. It is a kind of monologue, which is an extended discourse that doesn"t involve a conversational partner. Narratives can be about personal experiences or past events, or about anything that can organized into a structured story. Although adults can tell long narratives ad an uninterrupted monologue, children rst tell stories in a conversational context. Initially, adults provide extensive scaffolding for children"s narratives. 1: probe for information introduce topics, with development children require less scaffolding. But narratives tend to focus on general descriptions of familiar events: later able to tell stories of speci c events from their lives. Scaffolding is when more competent speakers provide support for children"s language use. Elaborative scaffolding: adults ask leading questions that help the child move the narrative forward. Helps children tell richer narratives in the moment. Helps them better develop hitter narrative skill over time.
