Purpose Narrative interventions are a class of language interventions that involve the use of
telling or retelling stories. Narrative intervention can be an efficient and versatile means of …

This study examined the validity of data collected from a novel online story retell task. The
task was specifically designed for use by junior school teachers with the support of speech …

Children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities (ID) often encounter difficulties with
narrative skills. Yet, there is a lack of research focusing on how to assess these skills in this …

Preschool-age children identified as at risk for later reading difficulties can benefit from
supplemental, small-group emergent literacy intervention. As such interventions become …

Purpose Narrative skill represents a higher-level linguistic skill that shows incremental
development in the preschool years. During these years, there are considerable individual …

The research nature of this study is to examine the priority of English as a foreign language
in many non-English speaking countries in the context of globalization with a focus on the …

This study investigated links of executive functioning to gains in school readiness skills and
explored the mediating role of children's behavioral engagement in the PreK classroom. We …

Purpose: Language sample analysis is widely regarded as the gold standard of language
assessment. However, the uncertainty regarding the optimal length of sample and the …

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to examine the change in specific English
microstructure features according to language ability in preschool Spanish–English dual …

Purpose: As a representative form of discourse, oral narratives offer a sensitive, flexible, and
ecologically valid tool for language evaluation. Nevertheless, oral narrative assessments in …