2003/06/01 by Tempii B. Champion, Allyssa McCabe, Yvanne Colinet · 1 citation
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Reading and Literacy Development #Child Development and Digital Technology #Multilingual Education and Policy
paper · doi:10.2190/vkct-q90l-prhf-mrdl
openalex publication_date 2003/06/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
The ability to tell personal narrative is an important aspect of developing communicative competence, as well as predictive of literacy achievement. Although cultural differences in narrative structure have been amply documented, little or no such information exists for many cultures, including Haitian. Personal narratives were collected from 10 Haitian-American children (7 years, 6 months) and analyzed using three different systems: high point analysis, story grammar, and Africanist analysis, which was specifically developed for this project. Although some narratives could be appreciated using high point and story grammar analyses, the Africanist approach was best suited to describing the narratives of Haitian-American children.