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August 12, 2026Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups

Effects of English Narrative Intervention for Spanish–English Bilingual Children on Narrative Discourse and Morphosyntactic Abilities

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ARAlalabeth RamirezLBLamitra BaezNDNoha Daher

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Overview

Randomized trial investigates the impact of English narrative intervention on narrative skills in bilingual children, suggesting potential benefits.

Key Points

  • This study aims to examine the effects of an English narrative intervention on enhanced narrative discourse and morphosyntactic skills in bilingual children.
  • One-group pretest–posttest design with 16 bilingual children aged 6–8 years.
  • Individualized Story Champs narrative intervention in English for 30 minutes biweekly over 6 weeks.
  • Pre- and post-intervention evaluations conducted in both Spanish and English using narrative tasks.
  • Significant increase in narrative discourse skills observed across all participants.
  • Kindergarten to first-grade participants showed greater gains in morphosyntactic skills than second- to third-grade participants.
  • Cross-linguistic transfer was noted for both narrative and morphosyntactic skills.

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Ramirez et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7c20ae06a85aed514b7a24https://doi.org/10.1044/2026_persp-25-00070
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