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How to Use the Index of Productive Syntax to Select Goals and Monitor Progress in Preschool Children
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Roberts, Jenny A.; Altenberg, Evelyn P.; Ferrugio, Hannah R.; Rosenberg, Jenna E. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: Syntax assessment and treatment is a major focus of speech-language pathologists who work with young children with language needs. The Index of Productive Syntax (IPSyn) provides an efficient method for the assessment of syntax of preschool-age children. The purpose of this tutorial is to illustrate how to hand-score an IPSyn from…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Syntax, Goal Orientation, Progress Monitoring
The Growth of Complexity and Accuracy in L2 French: Past Observations and Recent Applications of Developmental Stages
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Agren, Malin; Granfeldt, Jonas; Schlyter, Suzanne – Language Learning & Language Teaching (MS), 2012
This chapter addresses the question of the growth of accuracy and complexity in L2 French from the perspective of developmental sequences of morphosyntax, developmental stages and linguistic profiling. The six developmental stages for L2 French proposed by Bartning and Schlyter (2004) are presented and exemplified and new results are added to the…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Language Proficiency, Morphology (Languages), French
Computational Models in the Debate over Language Learnability
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Kaplan, Frederic; Oudeyer, Pierre-Yves; Bergen, Benjamin – Infant and Child Development, 2008
Computational models have played a central role in the debate over language learnability. This article discusses how they have been used in different "stances", from generative views to more recently introduced explanatory frameworks based on embodiment, cognitive development and cultural evolution. By digging into the details of certain specific…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Computation, Models, Language Acquisition
Developmental Dyslexia and Specific Language Impairment: Same or Different?
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Bishop, Dorothy V. M.; Snowling, Margaret J. – Psychological Bulletin, 2004
Developmental dyslexia and specific language impairment (SLI) were for many years treated as distinct disorders but are now often regarded as different manifestations of the same underlying problem, differing only in severity or developmental stage. The merging of these categories has been motivated by the reconceptualization of dyslexia as a…
Descriptors: Semantics, Developmental Stages, Reading Comprehension, Dyslexia
Developmental Issues in Interlanguage Pragmatics.
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Kasper, Gabriele; Schmidt, Richard – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1996
Profiles interlanguage pragmatics as an area of inquiry in second-language acquisition (SLA) research by reviewing existing studies with a focus on learning, examining research findings in interlanguage pragmatics shedding light on basic questions in SLA, exploring cognitive and social-psychological theories illuminating aspects of pragmatic…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cross Sectional Studies, Developmental Stages
Organization of Successive Events during Social-Emotional Interactions between Infants Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing and Caretakers: Implications for Learning Syntax
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Jung, Vivienne; Short, Robert H. – Volta Review, 2004
The aim of this paper is to advance understanding of the theoretical basis for the difficulties many children who are deaf or hard of hearing face when learning spoken English grammar. The association between learning syntactical grammar and pre-verbal social interactions is explored and related to the effects of prelingual hearing loss. We…
Descriptors: Grammar, Speech Communication, Social Development, Communication Skills