Validating the Use of Percent Grammatical Utterances for Assessing Mandarin-Speaking Children’s Grammatical Skill: Evidence From 3-Year-Olds.
Purpose: The study examined the use of percent grammatical utterances (PGUs) for assessing grammatical skills in Mandarin-speaking 3-year-old children. Method: Participants were 30 Mandarin-speaking 3-year-olds with typical development. Language samples were collected in two visits for each child us...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 67; no. 4; pp. 1173 - 1186 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=176515408&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 176515408 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10924388 1SM jtl: Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research issn: 10924388 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Apr2024 vid: 67 iid: 4 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 176515408 10.1044/2024_JSLHR-23-00557 ppf: 1173 ppct: 13 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 876KB tig: atl: Validating the Use of Percent Grammatical Utterances for Assessing Mandarin-Speaking Children’s Grammatical Skill: Evidence From 3-Year-Olds. aug: au: Ling-Yu Guo Ping Lee Hsin-jen Hsu Spencer, Linda affil: Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences, University at Buffalo, NY. Department of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan. Department of Rehabilitation, Chinese Medical University Hsinchu Hospital, Taiwan. Department of Special Education, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. MSSLP Program, Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions, Provo, UT. su: China Comparative grammar Language & languages Computers Ability Psychometrics Training Children Statistical reliability sug: subj: Comparative grammar Language & languages Computers Ability Psychometrics Training Children China Computer and Computer Peripheral Equipment and Software Merchant Wholesalers Computer and software stores Computer, computer peripheral and pre-packaged software merchant wholesalers Electronic Computer Manufacturing Computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing Electronics Stores Statistical reliability ab: Purpose: The study examined the use of percent grammatical utterances (PGUs) for assessing grammatical skills in Mandarin-speaking 3-year-old children. Method: Participants were 30 Mandarin-speaking 3-year-olds with typical development. Language samples were collected in two visits for each child using a picture description task. Children were asked to talk about 16 pictures in response to questions and prompts at each visit. Pictures for the language sample collection were identical across the visits. PGUs were computed, and the grammatical errors that children produced in the task were coded and tallied for error types at each visit. Test–retest reliability, split-half reliability, and concurrent criterion validity of PGUs were evaluated. Results: The mean PGU level was approximately 78% at Visit 1 and 81% at Visit 2, both of which were significantly below the mastery level (i.e., 90%). The correlation coefficient for test–retest reliability of PGU was large (r = .70, p < .01); the correlation coefficient for split-half reliability was medium at Visit 1 (r = .47, p < .01) and large (r = .65, p < .01) at Visit 2. In addition, the correlation coefficient for concurrent criterion validity of PGU was medium for both visits (rs ≥ .35, ps ≤ .03). The ranking and proportion of each error type were similar between the visits. Conclusion: The initial evidence from psychometric properties suggests that PGU computed from the picture description task is a reliable and valid measure for evaluating grammatical skills in Mandarin-speaking 3-year-old children. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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