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Narrative abilities of monolingual and bilingual children with and without language impairment: implications for clinical practice.
- Source :
- International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders; Nov/Dec2016, Vol. 51 Issue 6, p626-638, 13p, 7 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Background Understanding and expressing a narrative's macro-structure is relatively independent of experience in a specific language. A narrative task is therefore assumed to be a less biased method of language assessment for bilingual children than many other norm-referenced tests and may thus be particularly valuable to identify language impairment (LI) in a bilingual context. Aims The present study aimed to investigate the effects of LI and bilingualism on macrostructural narrative skills. Moreover, it evaluated the diagnostic validity of a narrative task within a monolingual and bilingual sample. Methods & Procedures Five- and 6-year-old mono- and bilingual children with and without LI ( N = 33 per group) were tested on production and comprehension measures of narrative macro-structure. A multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) was used to investigate the effects of LI and bilingualism on their narrative abilities. Binary logistic regressions were conducted to evaluate the instrument's diagnostic value. Outcomes & Results Negative effects of LI were found on all narrative measures, whereas no effects of bilingualism emerged. The narrative task adequately differentiated between both mono- and bilingual children with and without LI, with story elements related to internal states being more effective than elements related to the basic episode structure. Conclusions & Implications This study confirms the hypothesis that measures of narrative macro-structure are not biased against children who have less experience with a particular language, like bilinguals. In addition, it indicates that using narratives to assess children's language abilities can support the identification of LI in both a monolingual and a bilingual context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- HYPOTHESIS
ANALYSIS of covariance
CHI-squared test
COMPARATIVE studies
EXPERIENCE
INTELLIGENCE tests
LANGUAGE disorders in children
MULTIVARIATE analysis
PROBABILITY theory
QUESTIONNAIRES
RESEARCH
SPEECH evaluation
MATHEMATICAL variables
MULTILINGUALISM in children
LOGISTIC regression analysis
SOCIOECONOMIC factors
NARRATIVES
DATA analysis software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
INTRACLASS correlation
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13682822
- Volume :
- 51
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 119204267
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12234