Crosslinguistic nonword repetition and narrative performance over time
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Tessel Boerma
Abstract
Previous research has shown that a crosslinguistic nonword repetition and narrative tasks can support the identification of developmental language disorder (DLD) in 5- and 6-year-old bilingual children. The tasks disentangled the effects of DLD and bilingualism and demonstrated good clinical validity. The present longitudinal study investigated whether similar results could be obtained at older ages by following the same children over a three-year period. The tasks were found to remain sensitive to DLD and insensitive to bilingualism. The magnitude of the effect of DLD decreased over time. Together, the instruments attained adequate diagnostic accuracy in a monolingual and bilingual group at each wave of testing, indicating that they can effectively identify DLD in different learning contexts and at different ages.
Abstract
Previous research has shown that a crosslinguistic nonword repetition and narrative tasks can support the identification of developmental language disorder (DLD) in 5- and 6-year-old bilingual children. The tasks disentangled the effects of DLD and bilingualism and demonstrated good clinical validity. The present longitudinal study investigated whether similar results could be obtained at older ages by following the same children over a three-year period. The tasks were found to remain sensitive to DLD and insensitive to bilingualism. The magnitude of the effect of DLD decreased over time. Together, the instruments attained adequate diagnostic accuracy in a monolingual and bilingual group at each wave of testing, indicating that they can effectively identify DLD in different learning contexts and at different ages.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
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Part I. LITMUS in typical bilingual development
- MAIN story comprehension 13
- How oral texts are organized in monolingual and heritage Russian 47
- A case study of a quadrilingual child 77
- Lexical diversity in bilingual speakers of Croatian and Italian 99
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Part II. Using LITMUS for identifying SLI (DLD)
- Language performance of sequential bilinguals on an Irish and English sentence repetition task 131
- Identification of bilingual children with Specific Language Impairment in France 169
- Effects of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and bilingualism on verbal short-term memory 197
- The influence of different first languages on LITMUS nonword-repetition and sentence repetition in second language French and second language German 227
- Phonology and sentential semantics 263
- Crosslinguistic nonword repetition and narrative performance over time 301
- Index 329
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
-
Part I. LITMUS in typical bilingual development
- MAIN story comprehension 13
- How oral texts are organized in monolingual and heritage Russian 47
- A case study of a quadrilingual child 77
- Lexical diversity in bilingual speakers of Croatian and Italian 99
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Part II. Using LITMUS for identifying SLI (DLD)
- Language performance of sequential bilinguals on an Irish and English sentence repetition task 131
- Identification of bilingual children with Specific Language Impairment in France 169
- Effects of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and bilingualism on verbal short-term memory 197
- The influence of different first languages on LITMUS nonword-repetition and sentence repetition in second language French and second language German 227
- Phonology and sentential semantics 263
- Crosslinguistic nonword repetition and narrative performance over time 301
- Index 329
