Miroslava Nováková Schöffelová, Lucie Saicová Římalová, M. Mikulajová, Kamila Homolková
{"title":"The Czech version of MAIN: adaptation, revision, pilot data from typically-developing and hearing-impaired children, and future steps","authors":"Miroslava Nováková Schöffelová, Lucie Saicová Římalová, M. Mikulajová, Kamila Homolková","doi":"10.21248/zaspil.65.2023.615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.65.2023.615","url":null,"abstract":"The article introduces the latest Czech version of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN). The first Czech version of MAIN was published in 2020 and was piloted in 2020–2021. Subsequently, a revised Czech version of MAIN was created. This article introduces this latest version of MAIN, describes minor changes to the manual caused by typological features of Czech and a specific cultural context, and presents sample analyses of the pilot data collected from typically-developing and hearing-impaired children. The results from the pilot study indicate that MAIN functions properly in the Czech context, in particular for preschool children. The results show that MAIN can be fruitfully applied to assess speech and language skills in hearing-impaired children in the Czech context.","PeriodicalId":232649,"journal":{"name":"ZAS Papers in Linguistics","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121028709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Serbian version of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN)","authors":"L. Jeličić, Ivana Bogavac, A. Perovic","doi":"10.21248/ZASPIL.64.2020.573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/ZASPIL.64.2020.573","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000This paper provides the background to the process of translation and piloting of the Serbian version of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS- MAIN), Multilingvalni Test za Procenu Narativa (MTPN). Our review of the sparse research literature on Serbian children’s narrative abilities reveals a need for a well- designed narrative instrument, which will enable researchers and practitioners to assess the production and comprehension of narratives in children of a wide age range, typically and atypically developing, monolingual and bilingual, crucially allowing for cross- linguistic comparisons. We encountered two kinds of challenges during the process of translation and adaptation of the instrument from English into Serbian. The first concerned the lack of established Serbian technical terminology needed to describe test administration to the future users of the test: researchers and practitioners working in different disciplines such as linguistics, psychology, Speech and Language Therapy. The second challenge concerned the translation of linguistic structures required to produce a successful rendition of the narrative: in contrast to English, but in line with other Slavic languages, Serbian relies heavily on verbs marked for perfective aspect in story-telling. Our discussion of preliminary data from four Serbian monolingual children, aged 5;5-10, demonstrates that MTPN is a successful tool in assessing narrative abilities in children acquiring Serbian. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":232649,"journal":{"name":"ZAS Papers in Linguistics","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116275616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Hamdani, Rachel T. Y. Kan, A. Chan, Natalia Gagarina
{"title":"The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN): Adding Urdu to MAIN","authors":"S. Hamdani, Rachel T. Y. Kan, A. Chan, Natalia Gagarina","doi":"10.21248/zaspil.64.2020.580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.64.2020.580","url":null,"abstract":"The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN), an assessment tool in the Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings (LITMUS) battery, aims to improve the assessment of bilingual children. This paper describes the process of adapting MAIN to Urdu. Given the lack of language assessment tools for Urdu-speaking children, the Urdu MAIN is an important new instrument that is made widely and freely accessible to researchers and practitioners, allowing them to examine the narrative abilities of children acquiring Urdu as a first, heritage, second, or additional language.","PeriodicalId":232649,"journal":{"name":"ZAS Papers in Linguistics","volume":"46 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115562386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Karolina Mieszkowska, Agnieszka Otwinowska, M. Białecka-Pikul, Dorota Kiebzak-Mandera, Marcin Opacki, E. Haman
{"title":"Polish MAIN: how was it developed and how has it been used so far?","authors":"Karolina Mieszkowska, Agnieszka Otwinowska, M. Białecka-Pikul, Dorota Kiebzak-Mandera, Marcin Opacki, E. Haman","doi":"10.21248/ZASPIL.64.2020.571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/ZASPIL.64.2020.571","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000This paper describes in detail the development of the Polish version of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS-MAIN). We first describe its two earlier versions, the unpublished version and the published version, developed in 2012, as well as the revised version. We also justify the differences between the unpublished Polish version developed in 2012 and the original MAIN. Then we summarize the results from studies that used the unpublished version of the Polish MAIN. We end with outlining a study that could be conducted to compare the two slightly different procedures in order to examine whether the results obtained with MAIN are resistant to changes in the procedure details. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":232649,"journal":{"name":"ZAS Papers in Linguistics","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129670042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preface: New language versions of MAIN: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives – Revised","authors":"Natalia Gagarina, Josefin Lindgren","doi":"10.21248/zaspil.64.2020.548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.64.2020.548","url":null,"abstract":"ZasPiL 64.2020 contains 33 articles","PeriodicalId":232649,"journal":{"name":"ZAS Papers in Linguistics","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130351974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN): Adding Kam to MAIN","authors":"Wenchun Yang, A. Chan, Natalia Gagarina","doi":"10.21248/zaspil.64.2020.567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.64.2020.567","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000This paper introduces the Kam version of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS-MAIN). Kam is a minority language in southern China which belongs to the Kam-Tai language family and is spoken by the Kam ethnic minority people. Adding Kam to MAIN not only enriches the typological diversity of MAIN but also allows researchers to study children’s narrative development in a sociocultural context vastly distinctly different from the frequently examined WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) societies. Moreover, many Kam- speaking children are bilingual ethnic minority children who are “left-behind” children living in Mainland China, growing up in a unique socio-communicative environment. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":232649,"journal":{"name":"ZAS Papers in Linguistics","volume":"206 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120995143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jinxia Luo, Wenchun Yang, A. Chan, Kelly Cheng, Rachel T. Y. Kan, Natalia Gagarina
{"title":"The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN): Adding Mandarin to MAIN","authors":"Jinxia Luo, Wenchun Yang, A. Chan, Kelly Cheng, Rachel T. Y. Kan, Natalia Gagarina","doi":"10.21248/zaspil.64.2020.569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.64.2020.569","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000This paper introduces the Mandarin version of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS-MAIN) and describes the adaptation process. The Mandarin MAIN not only extends the empirical coverage of MAIN by including one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, but also offers an important tool to assess the narrative abilities of monolingual and bi-/ multi- lingual children acquiring Mandarin as a first, heritage, second, or additional language across the globe. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":232649,"journal":{"name":"ZAS Papers in Linguistics","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123942197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adapting the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) to Scottish Gaelic","authors":"Vasiliki Chondrogianni, Morna Butcher","doi":"10.21248/ZASPIL.64.2020.560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/ZASPIL.64.2020.560","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000This paper describes the rationale for the adaptation of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS-MAIN) (Gagarina et al., 2012, 2015, 2019) to Scottish Gaelic (Gaelic) and presents some preliminary results from the macrostructure measures. Gaelic is a heritage minority language in Scotland being revitalised through immersion education, which spans across all levels of compulsory education (preschool, primary and secondary level). MAIN was adapted to Gaelic for two reasons: (i) to gauge the language abilities of children attending Gaelic immersion schools using an ecologically valid test, and (ii) to help identify areas of language impairment in children with Developmental Language Disorders within a broader battery of language tasks. Preliminary results from the macrostructure component indicate a wider range of Gaelic language abilities in six- to eight-year-old typically developing children in Gaelic- medium education. These results set the stage for future use of the tool within this context. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":232649,"journal":{"name":"ZAS Papers in Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129310539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Natalia Gagarina, D. Klop, Sari Kunnari, Koula Tantele, T. Välimaa, U. Bohnacker, J. Walters
{"title":"MAIN: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives – Revised","authors":"Natalia Gagarina, D. Klop, Sari Kunnari, Koula Tantele, T. Välimaa, U. Bohnacker, J. Walters","doi":"10.21248/zaspil.63.2019.516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.63.2019.516","url":null,"abstract":"The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) is part of LITMUS (Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings). LITMUS is a battery of tests that have been developed in connection with the COST Action IS0804 Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment (2009-2013).","PeriodicalId":232649,"journal":{"name":"ZAS Papers in Linguistics","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131742972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identifying early preschool bilinguals at risk of DLD: a composite profile of narrative and sentence repetition skills","authors":"Natalia Gagarina, Stefanie Gey, Natalie Sürmeli","doi":"10.21248/zaspil.62.2019.448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.62.2019.448","url":null,"abstract":"For this study one hundred sixty-seven Russian-/Turkish-German preschool children were tested with a battery of language proficiency tests in both languages. On the basis of 1.5 SD below monolingual norm for L2 German and 1.25 SD below bilingual mean for either home language, 9 children at risk of developmental language disorders (DLD) (mean age of 4 years and 5 months) were identified and 16 age-matched TD children were selected out of the cohort. All these children were tested with the LITMUS-MAIN and –SR tests in German. The results across TD and at risk of DLD group were compared. TD clearly outperformed at risk of DLD in SR. In elicited narratives, macrostructure and microstructure were scrutinized across groups. Similar to the previous findings, our results show significant differences between at risk of DLD und TD in the microstructure, e.g. total number of word tokens and verb-based communication units and SR. For the macrostructure, TD outperformed at risk children only for story complexity. The study expands our knowledge on the cut-off criteria for the identification of bilinguals at risk of DLD, scrutinized very early narratives for bilinguals at risk of DLD features and questions the similarity of cognitive skills in TD and at risk of DLD children. \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":232649,"journal":{"name":"ZAS Papers in Linguistics","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128919894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}