Children's Narrative Development and Usage of Narratives in the Evaluation of Language

It is a narrative or a story that is one of the most common verbal language expressions, which children use very often to express themselves. Children start to acquire their ability to tell a story at early ages. A narrative analysis provides us with the information about how it combines the information of linguistic areas. A narrative shows clearly the developmental progress and can be used as a means of the evaluation of verbal linguistic development. The linguistic development in the future can be predicted with the evaluation of the narrative development because the narratives have more complex linguistic structures than the daily language. In addition, early narrative skills are the predictors of the academic skills in the future. That's why, the narrative should be one of the intervention targets in school-age children who have a difficulty in learning the language