Abstract

 
 
 The adaptation of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS-MAIN) for use with Slovak speaking children is a vital step in the process of creating a transparent evaluation of children’s narrative abilities. Since its first translation and adaptation in 2012, new pilot data from different groups of children has been collected in Slovakia. This paper describes the process of adapting the instrument to fit the Slovak language and reports on analyses of narrative production in monolingual (103 Slovak-speaking children) and bilingual (37 Slovak-English speaking) pre-school children. Within a pilot study, the story elicitation method was also compared (telling vs. retelling) within a small sample of 10 monolingual Slovak-speaking children. All results show transparent and detailed possibilities in terms of finding a meaningful evaluation that can evaluate a child’s complex narrative abilities.
 
 
Highlights
A child’s narrative abilities in the pre-school age are a significant predictor of their future school success
4.1 Study 1: Monolingual Slovak-speaking pre-school children In Study 1, we examined to what extent monolingual typically-developing Slovak-speaking pre-school children expressed story structure in their narratives
It is very useful that is can be used with different elicitation methods, combined with comprehension questions
Summary
A child’s narrative abilities in the pre-school age are a significant predictor of their future school success. Svetlana Kapalková & Monika Nemcová child specialists have usually asked children to recount a personal story, to retell a story that has previously been told by adults, or to speak about events from their daily life All these types of narratives have many limitations, such as the lack of an objective and transparent process for assessing the child’s narrative ability. As a result of designating objective and structured ways in which to ensure the same assessment criteria for all, the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS-MAIN, hereafter MAIN; Gagatina et al, 2012, 2015) was developed during the research project COST Action IS0804 Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment by one the working group on discourse. We present the adaptation of MAIN to Slovak, based on the revised MAIN (Gagarina et al, 2019), and report results for the studies that have used the Slovak MAIN since 2012, including recent pilot studies
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