Executive Function and Narrative Language Abilities in Emergent Bilingual Preschoolers: An Exploratory Study

Autor/inn/en	Clark-Whitney, Elysha; Melzi, Gigliana
Titel	Executive Function and Narrative Language Abilities in Emergent Bilingual Preschoolers: An Exploratory Study
Quelle	In: Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 54 (2023) 2, S.584-599 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Clark-Whitney, Elysha)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-1461
Schlagwörter	Bilingual Students; Preschool Children; Expressive Language; Language Skills; Hispanic American Students; Executive Function; Personal Narratives; Predictor Variables; English Language Learners; Urban Schools; Spanish Speaking; Student Characteristics; New York (New York) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Student; Students; Hispanoamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Erlebniserzählung; Prädiktor; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule
Abstract	Purpose: In light of the importance of preschool oral narrative skills as precursors to literacy, this exploratory study examined expressive language skills among emergent bilingual Latine preschoolers using a naturalistic personal narrative task. To understand the factors that support language use in the personal narrative context for this population, we examined the contribution of children's executive function (EF) skills to their narrative language abilities. Method: Children completed two subtests from the Preschool Self-Regulation Assessment to measure EF and produced two personal narratives in response to conversational prompts. A series of linear regressions were used to evaluate the relation between children's EF skills and their narrative production ability, narrative organization, and expressive language skills derived from automated analyses of narrative samples. Results: EF was found to predict children's ability to produce a personal narrative but not the language skills children demonstrated in these narratives. Conclusions: The current findings suggest that EF is implicated in emergent bilingual Latine children's narrative abilities. At the preschool age, the contribution of EF to narrative language production is apparent in the global task of producing a narrative, rather than in the organizational or linguistic features of the narrative. As such, supporting both EF and narrative skills might be an important means of facilitating preliteracy among bilingual children. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01