Examining Adolescent Language Performance in Discourse Production Across Four Elicitation Tasks.
Purpose: Comprehensive spoken language assessment should include the evaluation of language use in naturalistic contexts. Discourse elicitation and analysis provides the opportunity for such an evaluation to occur. In this article, our overall aim was to describe adolescents’ language performance on...
| Publicado en: | Language, Speech & Hearing Services in Schools Vol. 55; no. 3; pp. 838 - 853 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Jul2024
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=178220191&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 178220191 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 01611461 LSH jtl: Language, Speech & Hearing Services in Schools issn: 01611461 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2024 vid: 55 iid: 3 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association place: Rockville, Maryland artinfo: ui: 178220191 178220191 178220191 10.1044/2024_LSHSS-23-00163 178220191 ppf: 838 ppct: 15 formats: tig: atl: Examining Adolescent Language Performance in Discourse Production Across Four Elicitation Tasks. aug: au: Wallis, Adele K. Westerveld, Marleen F. affil: School of Health Sciences and Social Work, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. sug: subj: Speech and Language Assessment In Adolescence Discourse Analysis In Adolescence Language Tests In Adolescence Task Performance and Analysis Human Male Female Child Adolescence Descriptive Statistics Storytelling Decision Making, Clinical Narratives One-Way Analysis of Variance Funding Source Post Hoc Analysis Child: 6-12 years Adolescent: 13-18 years Male Female ab: Purpose: Comprehensive spoken language assessment should include the evaluation of language use in naturalistic contexts. Discourse elicitation and analysis provides the opportunity for such an evaluation to occur. In this article, our overall aim was to describe adolescents’ language performance on four elicitation tasks and determine if there are task-related differences across the elicitation tasks. Method: Forty-four typically developing adolescents with ages ranging from 12;2 to 17;11 (years;months; M = 15;2; 21 boys and 23 girls) participated in the study. They completed four spoken discourse tasks: (a) story generation using a wordless picture book, (b) fable retell, (c) six personal narratives in response to emotion-based prompts, and (d) monologic response to two stories that contained a moral dilemma. Responses were transcribed and analyzed for four language performance measures tapping into language productivity, syntactic complexity, lexical diversity, and verbal facility. Results: Despite individual variability in performance, mean scores were close to median scores for most measures, suggesting a symmetrical distribution. As expected, all four language performance measures were significantly different across the four elicitation tasks. The personal narrative task elicited the longest samples, with the highest verbal fluency. In contrast, both lexical diversity and syntactic complexity were the strongest in response to the fable retell and the moral dilemma tasks. Conclusions: This investigation provides speech-language pathologists with an overview of how task-related factors may impact adolescent language performance. These findings may be used to support their clinical decision-making processes in choosing a suitable discourse task when conducting a comprehensive spoken language assessment. Three hypothetical case examples are used to illustrate the decision-making process. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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