Development of an Auditory Passage Comprehension Task for Swedish Primary School Children of Cultural and Linguistic Diversity.

Purpose: This study reports on the development of an auditory passage comprehension task for Swedish primary school children of cultural and linguistic diversity. It also reports on their performance on the task in quiet and in noise. Method: Eighty-eight children aged 7-9 years and showing normal h...

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Publicado en:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 64; no. 10; pp. 3883 - 3894
Autores principales: Carlie, Johanna, Sahlén, Birgitta, Nirme, Jens, Andersson, Ketty, Rudner, Mary, Johansson, Roger, Gulz, Agneta, Brännström, K. Jonas
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Publicado: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Oct2021
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          Carlie, Johanna
          Sahlén, Birgitta
          Nirme, Jens
          Andersson, Ketty
          Rudner, Mary
          Johansson, Roger
          Gulz, Agneta
          Brännström, K. Jonas
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          Logopedics, Phoniatrics and Audiology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund, Lund University, Sweden
          Cognitive Science, Department of Philosophy, Lund University, Sweden
          Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Sweden
          Department of Psychology, Lund University, Sweden
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        Sweden
        Memory
        Linguistics
        Multilingualism
        Task performance
        Cultural pluralism
        Language acquisition
        School children
        Elementary schools
        Speech perception
        Phonological awareness
        One-way analysis of variance
        T-test (Statistics)
        Descriptive statistics
        Research funding
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          Memory
          Linguistics
          Multilingualism
          Task performance
          Cultural pluralism
          Language acquisition
          School children
          Elementary schools
          Sweden
          Elementary and Secondary Schools
          Speech perception
          Phonological awareness
          One-way analysis of variance
          T-test (Statistics)
          Descriptive statistics
          Research funding
      ab: Purpose: This study reports on the development of an auditory passage comprehension task for Swedish primary school children of cultural and linguistic diversity. It also reports on their performance on the task in quiet and in noise. Method: Eighty-eight children aged 7-9 years and showing normal hearing participated. The children were divided into three groups based on presumed language exposure: 13 children were categorized as Swedish-speaking monolinguals, 19 children were categorized as simultaneous bilinguals, and 56 children were categorized as sequential bilinguals. No significant difference in working memory capacity was seen between the three language groups. Two passages and associated multiple-choice questions were developed. During development of the passage comprehension task, steps were taken to reduce the impact of culture-specific prior experience and knowledge on performance. This was achieved by using the story grammar principles, universal topics and plots, and simple language that avoided complex or unusual grammatical structures and words. Results: The findings indicate no significant difference between the two passages and similar response distributions. Passage comprehension performance was significantly better in quiet than in noise, regardless of language exposure group. The monolinguals outperformed both simultaneous and sequential bilinguals in both listening conditions. Conclusions: Because the task was designed to minimize the effect of cultural knowledge on auditory passage comprehension, this suggests that compared with monolinguals, both simultaneous and sequential bilinguals have a disadvantage in auditory passage comprehension. As expected, the findings demonstrate that noise has a negative effect on auditory passage comprehension. The magnitude of this effect does not relate to language exposure. The developed auditory passage comprehension task seems suitable for assessing auditory passage comprehension in primary school children of linguistic and cultural diversity.
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