Chien-ju Chang
Developmental Psychology
National Taiwan Normal University
changch2@ntnu.edu.tw
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Chien-ju Chang Developmental Psychology National Taiwan Normal University changch2@ntnu.edu.tw |
| Participants: | 410 |
| Type of Study: | narrative |
| Location: | Taiwan and China |
| Media type: | audio |
Chang, C. (2009). Narrative development in Mandarin-speaking children in Taiwan and Mainland China: Scripts, personal narratives, and fantasy narratives [Technical report]. Taipei, Taiwan: National Science Council, Taiwan. (NSC94-2413-H-003-044, NSC95-2413-H-003-002, NSC96-2413-H-003-001)
Chang, C., & McCabe, A. (2013). Evaluation in Mandarin Chinese children’s personal narratives. In A. McCabe & C. Chang (Eds.), Chinese language narration: Culture, cognition, and emotion (pp. 33-56). Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins.
Chang, C., & Yang, K. (2010). Picture book narration: Referential skill in Mandarin Chinese-speaking children. In J. Zhou., L. Jin, C. Chang & L. Chen (Eds.), Language studies of Chinese speaking children (pp.31-54). Nanjing, China: Nanjing Normal University.
Publications using these data should cite one of the above references.
Please see this link for a general description of the Frog Story methods.
This study aims to explore narrative development in children living in Taiwan and Mainland China and to examine if children's narrative performance differs across genres. Children aged from 3 to 10 participated in this study, including 222 children (110 boys, 112 girls) from Taiwan and 188 (112 boys, 76 girls) from Mainland China. The three-year-olds and the first graders were revisited half a year and once a year respectively to trace the rate and direction of their growth in narrative skill. All children were asked to tell fantasy narratives, personally experienced stories, scripts and frog stories (Mayer, ) during interviews. The whole process of interviews were audio and video recorded. Children’s narratives were transcribed and coded using CHAT.
National Science Council, Taiwan. (NSC94-2413-H-003-044, NSC95-2413-H-003-002, NSC96-2413-H-003-001)