Performances of young African American children on two comprehension tasks.
This investigation examines the performances of 63 urban 4- to 7-year-old African American children from middle-income homes on two tasks designed to assess the development of comprehension skills. Performances on a task designed to elicit responses to wh-questions, and another to distinctions betwe...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 445 - 458 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Apr1998
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| Sumario: | This investigation examines the performances of 63 urban 4- to 7-year-old African American children from middle-income homes on two tasks designed to assess the development of comprehension skills. Performances on a task designed to elicit responses to wh-questions, and another to distinctions between active and passive sentence constructions, revealed grade effects and a positive relationship to age. The findings are discussed in terms of the appropriateness of using tasks of these types with young African American boys and girls who are dialect users. |
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