Boosting children's oral narrative abilities

As part of my PhD thesis, we have designed the MultiModal Narrative (MMN) intervention program, which is a multi-tiered intervention that can be applied either at a classroom level (i.e., universal support) or at an individual level with children with linguistic and communicative difficulties (i.e., intensive support). The MMN program trains narrative macrostructure (i.e., structural elements of the narrative) as well as narrative perspective-taking abilities (i.e., understanding characters’ perspectives and emotions) with the aid of multimodal strategies (i.e., embodying the different actions and emotions of the stories).

In collaboration with:

• Dr. Alfonso Igualada (UOC)

• Dr. Pilar Prieto (ICREA/UPF)

Project supported by the Regional Ministry of Education (Generalitat de Catalunya)

Subproject: Improving Catalan use and competence in preschoolers 

The goal of this subproject is to determine whether the MMN intervention can also help boost Catalan language use of Spanish-dominant preschoolers.

In collaboration with:

• Joel Espejo-Álvarez (UPF)

• Dr. Alfonso Igualada (UOC)

• Dr. Pilar Prieto (ICREA/UPF)

• Previous collaborators: Mireia Gómez (University College Cork), Claire Luong (UPF), Alba Buendía (UPF), Dr. Josefina Carrera-Sabaté (UB)