scholarly journals Preliminary Findings on a Newly Developed Malaysian Multilingual Sentence Repetition Task for Multilingual Chinese Children in Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rogayah Bt Razak ◽  
Cho Kai Shuo Cho ◽  
Norsofiah Abu Bakar Abu Bakar
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Language Impairment ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Standardized Test ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Sentence Length ◽  
Chinese Children ◽  
Children At Risk ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Sentence Repetition

INTRODUCTION: Even though multilingualism is the basic fabric of linguistic diversity of mainstream communities in Malaysia, there is generally a lack of assessment tool to assess the language abilities of multilingual children at risk of language impairment. This study is aimed at developing a Malaysian Multilingual Sentence Repetition (MMSR) task which can be used to assess the morphosyntactic abilities of multilingual Chinese children speaking three languages i.e., English-Mandarin-Malay. MATERIALS AND METHOD: 10 typically developing Chinese children within the ages of 4 years until 6 years and 11 months old were recruited. Each child was presented with sentences auditorily using a laptop with a microphone headset. The child was then asked to repeat verbatim the sentences they just heard. RESULTS: Findings showed that the subjects performed equally well in English and Mandarin but lower in Malay (p < 0.01). Correlation analyses revealed that the older children performed better for English (p < 0.05) and Mandarin (p < 0.01) sentence repetitions (SRs). Performance on SR tasks decreased with the increase in sentence length and complexity. CONCLUSION: The newly developed multilingual SR task proved reliable and valid as a tool and has the potential to be developed into a standardized test to assess multilingual Malaysian children at risk of language impairment.

scholarly journals Identifying Children at Risk for Language Impairment or Dyslexia With Group-Administered Measures

2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (12) ◽  
pp. 3507-3522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne M. Adlof ◽  
Joanna Scoggins ◽  
Allison Brazendale ◽  
Spencer Babb ◽  
Yaacov Petscher
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Language Impairment ◽  
Children At Risk

Cognitive person variables in the delay of gratification of older children at risk.

1989 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 358-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Larrea Rodriguez ◽  
Walter Mischel ◽  
Yuichi Shoda
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Delay Of Gratification ◽  
Children At Risk ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Person Variables

scholarly journals What aspects of the home literacy environment differentiate Chinese children at risk for reading difficulties from their not at risk controls?

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Su Zhen Zhang ◽  
George K. Georgiou ◽  
Hua Shu
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Reading Difficulties ◽  
Home Literacy Environment ◽  
Home Literacy ◽  
Chinese Children ◽  
Children At Risk ◽  
Literacy Environment ◽  
Literacy Resources ◽  
Home Literacy Activities ◽  
Not At Risk

We examined what aspects of the home literacy environment (formal home literacy activities, informal home literacy activities, access to literacy resources, age of onset of literacy instruction, child’s interest in reading, and parents’ expectations) differentiate Chinese children at risk for reading difficulties from their not-at-risk controls. Eighteen children from Jining, China, who were at risk for reading difficulties and 32 not-at-risk controls participated in the study. Their parents also participated in the study by filling out a home literacy questionnaire, by recording the daily parent-child reading activities (diary), and by completing the Children’s Title Recognition Checklist. Group comparisons revealed significant differences only in items measuring children’s access to literacy resources and reading interest. Results of discriminant function analyses further showed that the home literacy environment variables could discriminate well between the children at risk for reading difficulties and their controls. Taken together, our findings suggest that to the extent environment plays a role in reading difficulties in Chinese, this should be traced to factors such as child’s interest in reading and access to literacy resources. 

Two Grammatical Tasks for Screening Language Abilities in Spanish-Speaking Children

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 690-705 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandra Auza Benavides ◽  
Maria Kapantzoglou ◽  
Chiharu Murata
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Language Impairment ◽  
Specific Language Impairment ◽  
Operating Characteristic ◽  
Characteristic Curve ◽  
Children At Risk ◽  
Likelihood Ratios ◽  
Language Abilities ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Spanish Speaking

Purpose This study assessed concurrent validity evidence for 2 grammatical tasks of a new screener, the Tamiz de Problemas de Lenguaje, for identifying monolingual Spanish-speaking children at risk for specific language impairment with grammatical deficits. Method A total of 770 4- to 6-year-old monolingual, Spanish-speaking children with and without language impairment were sampled from 3 different states in Mexico. Multiple logistic regression and receiver operating characteristic curve analyses were conducted to assess the predictive utility of the model and the classification accuracy of the tasks. The criterion was diagnosis of specific language impairment with grammatical deficits on the basis of a comprehensive language assessment. Results Results indicated that sensitivity estimates ranged from .90 to .94 and specificity estimates from .83 to .92. Overall, there was a good balance between sensitivity and specificity estimates with moderate to large positive and negative likelihood ratios. Conclusion Results suggested that the 2 grammatical tasks are suitable for identifying 4- to 6-year-old monolingual Spanish-speaking children at risk for grammatical deficits.

Are Maltreated Children at Risk for Speech or Language Impairment?

1987 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca J. McCauley ◽  
Linda Swisher
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Language Impairment ◽  
Children At Risk ◽  
Maltreated Children

Enhancing orthographic knowledge helps spelling production in eight-year-old Chinese children at risk for dyslexia

2011 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Che Kan Leong ◽  
Ka Yee Loh ◽  
Wing Wah Ki ◽  
Shek Kam Tse
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Orthographic Knowledge ◽  
Chinese Children ◽  
Children At Risk ◽  
Old Chinese
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