叙事能力即产出和理解个人或虚构故事的能力，是口语能力的一个基本方面，也是贯穿人一生的一种无价的交流能力。本书首先介绍了叙事的定义和类型，阐述了叙事能力对儿童发展的重要性以及如何从宏观语言学和微观语言学的角度来评估儿童的叙事能力。在实证研究方面，本书探究了中国语言正常发展儿童和外国特殊语言障碍的青少年在叙事能力上的表现。本书的特色是通过分析语料库中的相关语料，探究国内外尚未得到充分研究的儿童和青少年的叙事能力，并提供系统的研究范式和方法，为读者提供借鉴。

Chapter 1 Introduction to Narratives
1.1 Definition
1.2 Types of Narratives
1.3 The Importance of Narrative Ability to Children's Development
1.4 Narrative Ability's Assessment
Chapter 2 Typically Developing Children's Narratives
Chapter 3 SLI Children's Narratives
3.1 Definition, Diagnosis and Identification of SLI Children
3.2 Language Features of SLI Children and Adolescents
3.3 SLI Children's Language Injury Mechanism
3.4 Expectation on Language Research on Chinese SLI Children
Chapter 4 Preferred Argument Structure
Chapter 5 Cohesion and Coherence in the Frog Story
Chapter 6 Chinese Children's Narrative Ability
6.1 The Use of PAS in Narratives by Chinese Children
6.2 Story Grammar Analysis in Narratives by Chinese Children
Chapter 7 English-speaking SLI Adolescents' Narrative Ability
7.1 The Use of PAS in Narratives by SLI Adolescents
7.2 Story Grammar Analysis in Narratives by SLI Adolescents
7.3 Microlinguistic Features by SLI Adolescents
Chapter 8 Conclusion
References
Appendixes
Index