I NTRODUCTION Katie Anderson, Erika Andrle, and Marie Stadler, Ph.D., CCC-SLP Communication Sciences and Disorders  University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Katie Anderson, Erika Andrle, and Marie Stadler, Ph.D., CCC-SLP Communication Sciences and Disorders  University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Research Question: What are the similarities and differences of European North American (ENA) children’s story retells using a story from the ENA culture and a story from the Hmong (HMG) culture? Hypothesis: ENA children’s story retells of the ENA story will be more elaborate and complex as well as contain more story grammar elements than the retells of the HMG story BACKGROUND Story retells can predict later academic performance, especially in comprehension (Spencer & Slocum, 2010) A previous study by Vang (2010) explored similarities and differences of HMG children’s story retells using a story from ENA culture and HMG culture Hmong participants in Vang’s study retold longer, more complex HMG stories with more story grammar elements than the ENA story PARTICIPANTS PROCEDURES Parents provided consent The Tiger in the Village (Moua, 2010); The Enormous Turnip (Cousins, 2009) The ENA and HMG stories were the same as used in Vang’s (2010) study Participants were randomly divided into two groups: one group told the ENA story first, the other group told the HMG story first The stories were read to participants twice, with one to two days between each reading Participants retold the story one to two days after the second reading without using pictures RESULTS Comparing English-Speaking Children’s Retells with Two Culturally Different Stories PURPOSE References: Cousins, L. (2009). Yummy: Eight favorite fairy tales. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press. Moua, Mee. (2010). The Tiger in the Village. Lulu.com Spencer, T. D., & Slocum, T. A. (2010). The effect of a narrative intervention on story retelling and personal story generation skills of preschoolers with risk factors and narrative language delays. Journal of Early Intervention, 32(3), Vang, P. (2010). The effects of embedding European North American story grammar elements in a Hmong story. (Unpublished graduate thesis). The funding of this study was provided by the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. Acknowledgements to the participants. The printing of this poster was funded by UW-Eau Claire Differential Tuition METHODS Eight ENA English-speaking participants (4 girls, 4 boys) Typically developing ages 7;0-9;10 Volunteers were recruited from the Eau Claire area CONCLUSION Statistical analyses were performed using the Wilcoxon Sign-Ranked Test (significance determined by p<0.05) ENA retells had significantly more C-units than HMG retells (p=.011) ENA retells were longer, more complex, and contained more different story grammar elements than the HMG retells HMG retells had longer C-units than ENA retells HMG vs. ENA: Length of Story HMG vs. ENA: Length and Complexity of C-Unit HMG vs. ENA: Different Story Grammar Elements