背景:全球TALES议定书的最新发展为对儿童的个人叙述进行系统的跨语言和跨文化比较提供了独特的机会。该协议包含6个脚本提示,以引起学龄儿童的个人叙述,当他们经历快乐/兴奋时,担心,恼怒,骄傲,处于问题的境地,重要的事情。
目的:本研究的目的是检查儿童在回答6个提示时的叙述主题,并与原始可行性文件中描述的来自其他10个国家/地区的儿童讲8种其他语言的叙述主题进行比较。
方法:我们将全球TALES协议翻译成印地语,并收集了30名讲印地语的儿童(6至9岁)的个人叙述,居住在瓦拉纳西,北方邦,印度。所有个人叙事样本都是亲自提取的,并录制了音频,以对主题进行手动编码。
结果:尽管我们观察到该数据集与最初可行性研究报告的数据集之间在儿童个人叙述主题上有许多相似之处,我们还记录了一些新颖的主题,例如“欢迎客人”以响应“兴奋”提示;“财务问题”以响应“担心”提示;“通过行动帮助某人或通过道德建议某人”以响应“问题”提示;以及“事故/个人损失”和“考试”以响应“重要”提示。
结论:其中一些新颖的主题可能反映了印度文化。因为我们的研究涉及一组儿童,他们在语言和文化上与以前使用全球TALES协议的研究不同,在6到9岁的时候,比之前的研究中的10岁孩子稍微年轻一点,这项研究增加了证据,即全球TALES协议可以用来引出来自不同语言和文化的儿童的个人叙述,她只有6岁。
The recent development of the Global TALES Protocol provides a unique opportunity to conduct systematic cross-linguistic and cross-cultural comparisons of children\'s personal narratives. This protocol contains 6 scripted prompts to elicit personal narratives in school-age children about times when they experienced feeling happy/excited, worried, annoyed, proud, being in a problem situation, something important.
The objectives of this study were to examine the topics of the children\'s narratives when they responded to the 6 prompts and draw comparisons with the topics of narratives spoken by children from 10 other countries speaking 8 other languages as described in the original feasibility paper.
We translated the Global TALES Protocol into Hindi and collected personal narratives of thirty Hindi-speaking children (aged 6-9 years), residing in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. All personal narrative samples were elicited in person and audio recorded for manual coding of the topics.
Although we observed many similarities in the topics of children\'s personal narratives between this dataset and the dataset reported on in the initial feasibility study, we also documented some novel topics, such as \"welcoming guests\" in response to the \"excited\" prompt; \"financial problems\" in response to the \"worried\" prompt; \"helping someone by actions or by advising someone morally\" in response to the \"problem\" prompt; and \"mishap/personal loss\" and \"exams\" in response to the \"important\" prompt.
Some of these novel topics likely reflected the Indian culture. Because our study involved a group of children who are linguistically and culturally different from previous studies using the Global TALES protocol and, at ages 6-9 years, slightly younger than the 10-year-olds in prior studies, this study adds to the evidence that the Global TALES protocol can be used to elicit personal narratives of children from diverse languages and cultures, as young as age 6.