dc.contributor.author | Westerveld, Marleen F | |
dc.contributor.author | Moran, Catherine A | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-03T16:08:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-03T16:08:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
dc.date.modified | 2012-07-27T03:17:30Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0161-1461 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1044/0161-1461(2010/10-0044) | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/42279 | |
dc.description.abstract | Purpose: This research investigated the expository language skills of young school-age children with the ultimate aim of obtaining normative data for clinical practice. Specifically, this study examined (a) the level of expository language performance of 6- and 7-year-old children with typical development and (b) age-related differences between young and older school-age children. Method: Expository discourse was elicited from two groups of children using the favorite game or sport (FGS) task. Performance of the younger age group (n = 61), age 6;0 (years;months) to 7;11, was compared to that of a group of twenty 11-yearold children from an earlier study. Samples were analyzed on measures of verbal productivity, syntactic complexity, grammatical accuracy, and verbal fluency. Results: The FGS task was effective in eliciting text-level discourse from young school-age children. These children produced discourse that resulted in a fairly normal distribution across some of the language production measures. Age-related differences were observed on measures of verbal productivity, grammatical accuracy, and verbal fluency, but not on syntactic complexity. Conclusion: The findings suggest that expository discourse sampling may be a useful addition to a language assessment protocol, even for very young school-age children. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.description.publicationstatus | Yes | |
dc.format.extent | 273088 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | American Speech-Language-Hearing Association | |
dc.publisher.place | United States | |
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublication | N | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 182 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 193 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 42 | |
dc.rights.retention | Y | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Clinical sciences | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Specialist studies in education | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Applied linguistics and educational linguistics | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 3202 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 3904 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 470401 | |
dc.title | Expository Language Skills of Young School-Age Children | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
gro.rights.copyright | © 2011 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal website for access to the definitive, published version. | |
gro.date.issued | 2011 | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Westerveld, Marleen F. | |