Publications

Overview of publications that have used the Global TALES protocol (most recent first)

  1. Bauer, E., Schmidt, A., Westerveld, M., & Gagarina, N. (2026). A comparison of internal state verb production in fictional and personal narratives elicited via Multilingual Assessment Instrument of Narratives and Global Talking About Lived Experiences In Stories. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. https://doi.org/10.1044/2026_LSHSS-25-00154
  2. Domby, L. M., & Washington, S. C. (2026). Clinical Focus: Clinical applications of the Global TALES (Talking About Lived Experiences in Stories) protocol for assessment of personal event narrative language. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. https://doi.org/10.1044/2026_LSHSS-25-00126
  3. Filiatrault-Veilleux, P., Hryciw, T., Ang, S., & Westerveld, M. F. (2026). Applying the LUNA Framework and Global TALES Protocol for Analyzing Personal Narratives in a Cross-Linguistic Study of Predominantly English and French-Speaking 9-10-Year-Olds from Canada. First Language, 01427237261460563. https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237261460 [Open access]
  4. Westerveld, M. F., Malone, S., Chan, A., Claessen, M., Einarsdóttir, J., Filiatrault-Veilleux, P., Westby, C., Amato, C., Chen, K.-M., Chrysostomou, M., Ferman, S., Fernandes, F. D., Gabaj, M., Geronikou, E., VaniGupta, López, K. J. d., Lee, J., Lyons, R., Kawar, K., . . . Nelson, N. (2026). Exploring personal narrative coherence in 10-year-old children: A global study using the Global TALES protocol. Language, Speech & Hearing Services in Schools. https://doi.org/10.1044/2026_LSHSS-25-00143 [Open access]
  5. Yaşar Gündüz, E., Selvi Balo, S., & Maviş, I. (2026). Exploring microstructure measures and topics in personal narratives of Turkish school-age children: Findings from the Global TALES-TR Protocol. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 61(2), e70219. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.70219
  6. Einarsdóttir, J. T. (2026). Persónulegar frásagnir fjöltyngdra barna, málnotkun þeirra og umræðuefni, í samanburði við eintyngd börn [Personal Narratives of Monolingual and Multilingual Children in Iceland]. Netla - Ársrit. https://doi.org/10.24270/netla.2026/5
  7. Gabaj, M., Kraljević, J. K., & Westerveld, M. F. (2025). Contribution of memory mechanisms and socio-emotional functioning to the production of personal narratives in children with and without developmental language disorder. Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research, 68, 4845-4864. doi:10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-0004
  8. Gabaj, M., Kraljević, J. K., & Westerveld, M. F. (2025). The personal narratives of Croatian-speaking children with developmental language disorder: Investigating the influence of emotional valence at linguistic, propositional, and macrostructure levels. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 56(3), 617-632. doi:10.1044/2025_LSHSS-24-00111
  9. Gabaj, M., Kuvač Kraljević, J., & Westerveld, M. F. (2025). Linguistic organisation and coherence in personal narratives of 10-year-old children with developmental language disorder. First Language, 45(2), 128-151. doi:10.1177/01427237241298163
  10. Kuvač Kraljević, J., Matić Škorić, A., & Gabaj, M. (2023). Personal narratives of school-age children: A cross-sectional developmental study. Folia Phoniatrica Et Logopaedica, 412-430. doi:10.1159/000533399
  11. Westerveld, M. F., Nelson, N. W., Claessen, M., & Westby, C. (2023). Children’s use of evaluative devices in response to the global TALES protocol. Folia Phoniatrica Et Logopaedica, 480-494. doi:10.1159/000533138
  12. Ferman, S., & Kawar, K. (2023). Tele-assessment of oral personal narratives in Arabic- and Hebrew-speaking children using the Global TALES protocol. Folia Phoniatrica Et Logopaedica, 456-469.
  13. Lyons, R., Antonijevic-Elliott, S., Barbotin, S., Molloy, M., O’Malley-Keighran, M. P., Spelman, J., & Westerveld, M. F. (2023). Feasibility of using the Global TALES protocol to elicit personal narratives in 10 year-old children in Ireland. Folia Phoniatrica Et Logopaedica, 393-400. doi:10.1159/000533140
  14. Einarsdóttir, J. T., & Þráinsdóttir, E. (2023). Personal narratives of 10-year-old children in Iceland– verbal productivity, word diversity, and topics. Folia Phoniatrica Et Logopaedica, 75, 372-381. doi:10.1159/000533134
  15. Theodorou, E., Vogindroukas, I., Giannakou, E., Tsouti, L., & Phinikettos, I. (2023). Telling personal narratives: Comparing stories told by 10-year-old speakers of Cypriot Greek Dialect and of Standard Modern Greek. Folia Phoniatrica Et Logopaedica, 401-411. doi:10.1159/000533400
  16. Maviş, İ., & Yaşar-Gündüz, E. (2023). Evaluating the personal narrative skills of monolingual turkish speaking 7- and 10-year-old children with typical development through Global TALES: A pilot study. Folia Phoniatrica Et Logopaedica, 382-392. doi:10.1159/000533292
  17. Van Vreckem, C., Desoete, A., Simoens, D., Van de Vyver, A., Pauwels, J., Van Laethem, C., & Van Lierde, K. (2023). Vocabulary diversity in personal narratives produced in response to the Global TALES protocol in Dutch-speaking students with and without dyslexia. Folia Phoniatrica Et Logopaedica, 470-479. doi:10.1159/000532024
  18. Srivastava, V., Chan, A., & Westerveld, M. F. (2023). What do children in India talk about: Personal narratives of typically developing Hindi-speaking children. Folia Phoniatrica Et Logopaedica, 447-455. doi:10.1159/000534298
  19. Westby, C. E., Chen, K.-M., Lee, J. P., & Wong, A. M.-Y. (2023). Topic and content of personal narratives of children from three East Asian cultures and three English-speaking cultures. Folia Phoniatrica Et Logopaedica, 431-446. doi:10.1159/000533559
  20. Westerveld, M. F., & Nelson, N. (2023). Editorial: Evaluating children’s personal narrative skills using the Global TALES protocol: Implications for practice. Folia Phoniatrica Et Logopaedica, 367-371. doi:10.1159/000534510
  21. Westerveld, M. F., Lyons, R., Nelson, N. W., Chen, K. M., Claessen, M., Ferman, S., . . . on behalf the Global Tales Consortium. (2022). Global TALES feasibility study: Personal narratives in 10-year-old children around the world. PLoS ONE, 17(8), e0273114. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0273114 - Free Access

 

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