This diploma thesis titled Storytelling by Principles of Coherence and Cohesiveness and the Impact of Family Reading on the Child 's Speech and Language Development is divided into two parts: theoretical and empirical.
The theoretical part defines language and speech, searches for the answer about speech development by different theories, determines the pre-production and the production stage in speech, searches for the fundamental factors of the speech development and describes the way how to tell stories, which is influenced also by family reading.
The basic goal of this diploma thesis is to find out how children aged between two and five tell stories taking into account the criterion of coherence (content level) and cohesion (grammatical level). This study summarizes the criterion of L. Marjanovič Umek (2004). It is used to discover different development levels in storytelling. It searches for differences in storytelling regarding sex and the ways of language stimulation by the family of the narrator.
The results show that the stories narrated by older children are more coherent, however not more cohesive. The study doesn’t reveal the differences between storytellers up to three-years-old regarding their sex, later on the boys are better considering the criterion of coherence i.e. telling story as the whole and inventing logical ends of stories.
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