This paper focuses on the support measures (scaffolding devices) used by adult interlocutors in L2 narrative sequences of children aged three to six. For the narrative analysis, the paper draws on the principle of interactive constructedness, according to which the interaction partners jointly perform various communicative tasks, and distinguishes two basic types of scaffolding strategies: interrogative and reparative measures. Language data in the L2 German and Italian, collected in the Ladin valleys of South Tyrol, serve as the corpus basis. The data analysis shows that irrespective of the language used different scaffolding strategies are employed depending on the acquisitional stage (early vs. advanced), the children’s age and the interaction partners.

Te chest articul végnel porté dant n valgugn mecanisms de sostegn (scaffolding) che persones adultes adora te secuenzes naratives tl L2 con mutons/mutans danter i 3 y i 6 agn. L’analisa se baseia sun l prinzip dla cocostruzion interativa. Aldò de chesta proposta realisea i partezipanc ala conversazion deberieda compic comunicatifs, desfarenzian danter metodes de interogazion y de reparazion. L corpus é metù adum da dac linguistics tl todesch y talian L2, abinés adum tl teritore ladin dl Südtirol. L’analisa mostra su che independentamenter dal lingaz rejoné, se desfarenzieia chestes strategies de sostegn aldò dl stade d’acuisizion (prum o avanzé), dl’eté di mutons y dles mutans y dles partneres d’interazion.