What is already known on the subject Personal narratives provide rich information about children's language, discourse and communicative competence and are widely used in both research and clinical assessment. The Global TALES protocol has been developed as a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural framework to elicit personal narratives using emotion-based prompts and has been applied in multiple languages and cultural contexts. However, empirical evidence on personal narrative performance in Turkish-speaking children remains limited, and systematic data obtained using internationally comparable protocols are scarce. What this study adds to existing knowledge This study extends a previous pilot study by providing systematically analysed assessment data from a larger sample of TD Turkish-speaking children aged 7-10 years using the Turkish-adapted Global TALES protocol. The findings offer detailed information on verbal productivity, semantic diversity and syntactic complexity in Turkish personal narratives, including age-related patterns and limited gender-related differences. In addition, the study documents children's use of follow-up prompts and the narrative topics elicited by different emotional prompts, contributing cross-cultural data that can be compared with findings from other countries participating in the Global TALES project. What are the potential or actual clinical implications of this work? The results provide reference data that may support speech-language pathologists in interpreting personal narrative samples from Turkish-speaking children aged 7-10 years. The study demonstrates the feasibility of using the Global TALES protocol in Turkish, offering clinicians a culturally sensitive and internationally comparable framework for narrative assessment. The findings may inform clinical decision-making, assessment planning and future research involving children with language disorders or learning difficulties.
Gündüz et al. (Sun,) studied this question.