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Clinical impact of wordless picture storybooks on bilingual narrative language production: A comparison of the 'Frog' stories.
- Source :
- International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders; May2016, Vol. 51 Issue 3, p339-345, 7p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Background Language sampling, recognized as a gold standard for expressive language assessment, is often elicited using wordless picture storybooks. A series of wordless storybooks, commonly referred to as 'Frog' stories, have been frequently used in language-based research with children from around the globe. Aims To examine the impact that differences in stories have on narrative output by comparing narrative productions across a series of five storybooks produced by 831 bilingual (Spanish-English) children in kindergarten through third grade. Methods & Procedures Each participant produced oral narratives using one of the five Frog storybooks in both English and Spanish. The narratives were recorded, transcribed and coded for a variety of measures of language production. Outcomes & Results Negligible differences were observed in language measures when comparing groups of children who told different stories, with the exception of lexical diversity. Conclusions & Implications The implications of using different storybooks to elicit narrative language samples from children are discussed from the perspectives of research and clinical practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- STORIES without words
BILINGUAL books
BILINGUALISM
LANGUAGE ability testing
NARRATION
ANALYSIS of variance
CHILDREN
SPEECH evaluation
BOOKS
COMPUTERS
PROBABILITY theory
RESEARCH funding
MULTILINGUALISM in children
DATA analysis
SECONDARY analysis
EFFECT sizes (Statistics)
NARRATIVES
PHONOLOGICAL awareness
REHABILITATION of children with disabilities
CROSS-sectional method
DATA analysis software
MEDICAL coding
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
MEAN length of utterance
ONE-way analysis of variance
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13682822
- Volume :
- 51
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 114639731
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12201