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  • Should We Use Sentence- or Text-Level Tasks to Measure Oral Language Proficiency in Year-One Students following Whole-Class Intervention?

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    Author(s)
    Lennox, Maria
    Westerveld, Marleen F
    Trembath, David
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    Westerveld, Marleen F.
    Trembath, David
    Year published
    2017
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    Abstract
    Aims: To compare students’ oral language proficiency on sentence- versus text-level tasks at school entry and following tier 1 intervention in their first year of formal schooling. Methods: 104 students participated in this study. Participants were part of a broader longitudinal study and were enrolled at 3 low socioeconomic, linguistically diverse Australian primary schools. Tasks were administered to all students at the beginning and end of the school year. Performance on the sentence-level task, the Renfrew Action Picture Test (RAPT), was analysed for information and grammar as per the test manual. Performance on the ...
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    Aims: To compare students’ oral language proficiency on sentence- versus text-level tasks at school entry and following tier 1 intervention in their first year of formal schooling. Methods: 104 students participated in this study. Participants were part of a broader longitudinal study and were enrolled at 3 low socioeconomic, linguistically diverse Australian primary schools. Tasks were administered to all students at the beginning and end of the school year. Performance on the sentence-level task, the Renfrew Action Picture Test (RAPT), was analysed for information and grammar as per the test manual. Performance on the text-level task, the Profile of Oral Narrative Ability, was analysed for measures of story length, mean length of utterance, grammatical accuracy, number of different words, and story quality. Results: Results showed that both tasks are sensitive to measure progress following tier 1 intervention. However, RAPT concern status was not related to oral narrative concern status. Furthermore, if only the RAPT task had been used, between 11 and 21% of students performing below expectations in oral narrative would not have been identified. Conclusion: It is recommended that the assessment of oral language proficiency of students from culturally diverse, low socioeconomic backgrounds goes beyond the sentence level and includes an oral narrative retell task.
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    Journal Title
    Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica
    Volume
    69
    Issue
    4
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1159/000485974
    Copyright Statement
    © 2017 S. Karger AG, Basel. This is the peer-reviewed but unedited manuscript version of the following article: Should We Use Sentence- or Text-Level Tasks to Measure Oral Language Proficiency in Year-One Students following Whole-Class Intervention? Vol 69(4) Pages 169-179, 2017. The final, published version is available at DOI 10.1159/000485974.
    Subject
    Clinical sciences
    Special education and disability
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/376297
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