Publications

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

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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.
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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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