Abstract

LOPEZ SILVA, Luz Stella; DUQUE ARISTIZABAL, Claudia Patricia; CAMARGO DELUQUE, Gina Lizeth  and  OVALLE PARRA, Amalia. Text narrative comprehension and production in pre-kindergarten. Psicol. caribe [online]. 2014, vol.31, n.1, pp.39-58. ISSN 0123-417X.

This study aimed to identify and describe the skills of textual narrative comprehension and production in pre-kindergarten students belonging to 1st and 2nd social strata of public schools of the city of Barranquilla (Colombia). To evaluate this capability, the children were asked to narrate a text that had been narrated to them; the language samples were analyzed using the software SALT. The organizational structure of microstructure, macrostructure and superstructure was considered from the level of literal and inferential comprehension, finding that most children have a narrative development according to their age, however the inferential elaboration was low, what possibly affected the understanding of story by children.

Keywords : Narrative; textual comprehension; pre-kindergarten children; re-narration; text structure.

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