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dc.contributor.authorGoddard, Clifford
dc.contributor.authorVanhatalo, Ulla
dc.contributor.authorHane, Amie A
dc.contributor.authorWelch, Martha G
dc.contributor.editorGoddard, Cliff
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-05T03:38:28Z
dc.date.available2021-10-05T03:38:28Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-030-64077-4en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-030-64077-4_9en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/408544
dc.description.abstractThe Welch Emotional Connection Screen (WECS) is an instrument for assessing mother–infant Emotional Connection in clinical settings. Trained observers rate mother and infant on four scales (Attraction, Vocal Communication, Facial Communication, and Sensitivity/Reciprocity), culminating in an overall evaluation of emotional connection. The WECS and its training materials use many complex and non-translatable expressions, for example ‘close physical proximity’, ‘positive vocalisations’, ‘seamless interactions’, which are not ideal for use in the full range of clinical settings. This chapter reports on collaborative research aimed at producing simply-phrased and cross-translatable descriptions in Minimal English. Different aspects of the adaptation process are described: conceptual, linguistic, and practical, including translatability testing into Finnish, Spanish and Polish. The project provides a model of how psychometric test procedures can be improved using Minimal English.en_US
dc.description.peerreviewedYesen_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.publisherSpringer Natureen_US
dc.publisher.placeCham, Switzerlanden_US
dc.relation.ispartofbooktitleMinimal Languages in Actionen_US
dc.relation.ispartofchapter9en_US
dc.relation.ispartofchapternumbers12en_US
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom225en_US
dc.relation.ispartofpageto254en_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSociologyen_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLinguisticsen_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4410en_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4704en_US
dc.titleAdapting the Welch Emotional Connection Screen (WECS) into Minimal English and seven other minimal languagesen_US
dc.typeBook chapteren_US
dc.type.descriptionB1 - Chaptersen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationGoddard, C; Vanhatalo, U; Hane, AA; Welch, MG, Adapting the Welch Emotional Connection Screen (WECS) into Minimal English and seven other minimal languages, Minimal Languages in Action, 2021, pp. 225-254en_US
dc.date.updated2021-10-05T03:34:36Z
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gro.griffith.authorGoddard, Cliff W.


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