Story telling in bilingual Urdu-Cantonese ethnic minority children: Macrostructure and its relation to microstructural linguistic skills.

Front Psychol · 2023 · PMC10009217 · PMID 36923152

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By contrast, NDW and an index of syntactic competence (MLCU in L1, but Cproportion in L2) were significant or close-to-significant positive predictors of SC in both languages.

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Story Structure (SS) and Story Complexity (SC), and Internal State Term (IST) were similar in terms of having Number of Different Words (NDW) emerged consistently as a highly significant positive predictor of all three macrostructure dimensions/components.

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