Narrative Comprehension in Preschoolers in Peripheral Areas of Nicaragua

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Alex Martín Bonilla-Jarquín

Universidad Centroamericana

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7276-9615

Sandra Esther Ruiz-Almendárez

Universidad Centroamericana

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4278-5227

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https://doi.org/10.32541/recie.2020.v4i2.pp62-77

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2020-07-04

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Vol. 4 No. 2 (2020): Caribbean Journal of Educational Research

Abstract

Narrative comprehension in preschool education has been the subject of several international studies that demonstrate that it constitutes a predecessor and a predictor of successful reading comprehension and identifies the most effective methodologies to promote it. This research describes how narrative comprehension is taught in peripheral schools of Nicaragua, and explores the effectiveness of the methodologies that are put into practice. The research was of the exploratory type; it had as an analysis unit five teachers distributed in five classrooms of third level preschool in three schools, and the teachers who attend children between the ages of 5 and 6. Reading narrative texts of the story type in the classrooms was observed, interviews, review of class plans, curricular analysis, and two validated instruments were applied in other investigations: a questionnaire of reading skills for teachers and a test of narrative comprehension for preschool. The results indicate narrative comprehension is not being explicitly taught in these classrooms; the teachers stimulate some skills but the boys and girls fail to reconstruct the stories in a meaningful and coherent way. This research confirms that reading aloud, literal inferences and teacher-student interaction are developed. Prediction, understanding of vocabulary and print awareness are skills that are not stimulated in children during oral narratives. Causal and socio-emotional inferences are very limited.

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inferential questions narrative comprehension oral narratives preschool education reading skills

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Bonilla-Jarquín, A. M., & Ruiz-Almendárez, S. E. (2020). Narrative Comprehension in Preschoolers in Peripheral Areas of Nicaragua. Caribbean Educational Research Journal (RECIE), 4(2), 62–77. https://doi.org/10.32541/recie.2020.v4i2.pp62-77
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Research article