Narrative Development in Second Language Acquisition: Oral and Written

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Narrative can be defined as the representation of a series of episodes or events that form the basis of a story; in Labov's words (1972, p. 359), it is “one method of recapitulating past experience by matching a verbal sequence of clauses to the sequence of events which (it is inferred) actually occurred.”</jats:p>