| Narrative competence is an important part of language ability to children, which emphasizes the monologue description of events. It is mostly refer to oral narrative for children. Narrative has great significance on children's literacy reading, cognitive development, and so forth. In this article, the author makes the investigation on the effects of teacher's using dialogic reading on the narrative development of children who come from low-income families.In this paper,38 children from senior class in a kindergarten for children of migrant workers in Beijing served as researcher objects,. In this research, which lasted entire eight weeks, children in experimental group received dialogic reading intervention, and in the control group teacher read picture book for them. With the tool of story board of multiple intelligences, the author obtained narrative samples from children before and after the intervention. Narrative video and text were assessed with the help of colorful spectrum evaluation system. Based on analyzing the condition of children's narrative competence before the research, the difference of score between the experimental group and the control group before and after the research, the author gets the following findings:1. Children from low income families in this research have low narrative competence, and they show obvious differences on eight-dimensions of narrative competence.2. Compared with the score before the research, the experimental children make obvious improvement on characteristics of narrative structure, consistency with the theme, the use of narrative tone, the use of dialogue, expressive force and vocabulary proficiency.3 Compared with the teachers'reading story for children, the dialogic reading method makes effective development of consistency with the theme and expressive force.In this study, the author only focuses on the development of children's narrative skills by the method of dialogic reading, hoping to stimulate further research on promoting the development of children's narrative competence from low-income families. |
