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The Relationship between Executive Functions and Language Production in 5-6-Year-Old Children: Insights from Working Memory and Storytelling.


ABSTRACT: This study examined the relationship between working memory capacity and narrative abilities in 5-6-year-old children. 269 children were assessed on their visual and verbal working memory and performed in a story retelling and a story creation (based on a single picture and on a series of pictures) tasks. The stories were evaluated on their macrostructure and microstructure. The results revealed a significant relationship between both components (verbal and visual) of working memory and the global indicators of a story's macrostructure-such as semantic completeness, semantic adequacy, programming and narrative structure-and with the indicators of a story's microstructure, such as grammatical accuracy and number of syntagmas. Yet, this relationship was systematically stronger for verbal working memory, as compared to visual working memory, suggesting that a well-developed verbal working memory leads to lexically and grammatically more accurate language production in preschool children.

SUBMITTER: Veraksa A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7071471 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The Relationship between Executive Functions and Language Production in 5-6-Year-Old Children: Insights from Working Memory and Storytelling.

Veraksa Aleksander A   Bukhalenkova Daria D   Kartushina Natalia N   Oshchepkova Ekaterina E  

Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) 20200205 2


This study examined the relationship between working memory capacity and narrative abilities in 5-6-year-old children. 269 children were assessed on their visual and verbal working memory and performed in a story retelling and a story creation (based on a single picture and on a series of pictures) tasks. The stories were evaluated on their macrostructure and microstructure. The results revealed a significant relationship between both components (verbal and visual) of working memory and the glob  ...[more]

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