Pedagogical Implications of the StudyThe findings of the current study have some important implications that might be helpful for second/foreign language learning and for language teachers and parents who are concerned about children’s narrative development.First of all, the findings of the present study provide a framework of narrative skills for children who are in the process of learning a second/foreign language. The framework allows teachers and parents to examine children’s narratives as they acquire narrative abilities. For example, teachers and parents could provide formulaic expressions to children when they learn ways to start or end stories. These formulaic expressions might serve as a scaffold for aiding children’s narrative development. In addition, if some information is missing i heir narratives, with a clear understanding of the narrative structure, parents and teachers could easily notice and identify the missing elements and guide children to supplement the missing elements to tell a better story. Moreover, teachers and parents could then train or develop children’s narrative abilities by introducing other elements from the framework, such as providing introductions and guidelines to better express the initiating event, paying more attention to characters’ intentions, behaviors and emotional states, and using better referential devices to make the story more logical and coherent. In other words, the framework could be used for the purpose of encouraging children to produce more elaborate and enriched stories.Moreover, implication of this study is the potential diagnostic function of children’s narrative. It has been widely discussed that children’s narrative abilities can be predicted by examining their narratives (Gutierrez-Clellen, 2002; Norbuy & Bishop, 2003; Zou & Cheung, 2007). In addition, numerous studies have found that