Extemporaneous Oral Interpretations of Storybooks by Bilingual Speech Language Pathologists: Utilization of a Decision Tree to Select Appropriate Storybooks.

Many bilingual speech language pathologists (BiSLPs) report orally interpreting storybooks from a source to a target language when incorporating storybooks into therapy. Our purpose was to propose a decision tree for BiSLPs to use for selecting storybooks written in English for extemporaneous interp...

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Published in:Journal of Monolingual & Bilingual Speech (JMBS) Vol. 7; no. 2; pp. 357 - 387
Main Authors: Gonzales, Maria Diana, Schwarz, Amy Louise, Nguyen, Quan, Gragera, Antonio, Yang, Jie, Resendiz, Maria
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Published: University of Toronto Press Jul2026
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          Nguyen, Quan
          Gragera, Antonio
          Yang, Jie
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          Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, United States
          Centre Medical International, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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        Oral interpretation
        Decision trees
        Cross-cultural differences
        Language ability
        Emergent literacy
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        Speech therapists
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          Decision trees
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          Emergent literacy
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        bilingual competence
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      ab: Many bilingual speech language pathologists (BiSLPs) report orally interpreting storybooks from a source to a target language when incorporating storybooks into therapy. Our purpose was to propose a decision tree for BiSLPs to use for selecting storybooks written in English for extemporaneous interpretation to another language. To create the proposed four-step decision tree, the authors combined four elements: i) a list of questions to help BiSLPs self-assess their awareness of linguistic/cultural differences between their source and target languages, ii) a self-assessment of language proficiency, iii) the client's oral language goals, and iv) the MetaMetric's Lexile Scores and Early Reading Indicators for storybooks. A BiSLP, fluent in Vietnamese and English, utilized the proposed decision tree and explained the strengths and challenges.
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