STORY GRAMMAR AS A STRATEGY FOR ENHANCING NARRATIVE SKILLS IN THE CASE OF L2 ROMANIAN ADULT LEARNERS
STORY GRAMMAR AS A STRATEGY FOR ENHANCING NARRATIVE SKILLS IN THE CASE OF L2 ROMANIAN ADULT LEARNERS

Summary/Abstract: Story Grammar as a Strategy for Enhancing Narrative Skills in the Case of L2 Romanian Adult Learners. The present study analyses the storytelling abilities of L2 Romanian learners, students enrolled in the Preparatory Program for Foreign Citizens at Babeș-Bolyai University. It aims to give an interpretation across Story Grammar (SG) episodes of three stories from Mercer Mayer’s Frog Stories to track the development of the L2 Romanian oral productions, namely the macrostructure of the Story Grammar (SG) constituents and the microstructure of the temporal, causal, and additive cohesion markers. The spoken corpus, a small L2 Romanian corpus of pictured-based oral productions, was the data source for the research. The stories were assessed progressively, from level A2 to level B2, and the scoring model and methodology focused on the macrostructure of the L2 oral productions and the overall organisation, at the same time, aiming to outline the milestones reached by students as evidence that made possible the provision of sufficient granularity to the data assessment. The results showed that teaching narrative strategies to students who learn a second language is a necessary step if one aims to impact the development of their ability to tell and retell and give them (self)assessment instruments that can foster access to SG strategy in L2 and provide tools for optimising structural organisation when producing oral or written texts in L2. The results regarding their narrative skills became valuable for improving teaching methods that enhance storytelling strategies in L2 Romanian.

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