Sentence Repetition in Farsi-English Bilingual Children
The current study aimed to create an assessment that can be used in the future to measure the language abilities of Farsi-speaking children in a clinical setting. A Farsi sentence-repetition task was created that included structures organised into three levels of complexity from least to most comple...
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| author | Mariam Komeili Theodoros Marinis Parvaneh Tavakoli Yalda Kazemi |
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| description | The current study aimed to create an assessment that can be used in the future to measure the language abilities of Farsi-speaking children in a clinical setting. A Farsi sentence-repetition task was created that included structures organised into three levels of complexity from least to most complex. Twenty typically developing Farsi-English bilingual children between the ages of 6;3–11;6 were recruited from Farsi schools in Toronto, Canada. Significant differences on the participants’ performance among the three levels were found with the lowest performance in the most complex sentences and the highest performance in the least complex ones. Specific structures appeared to be more challenging than others within each level of complexity. The children’s decreasing performance with increasing complexity and the evidence that specific structures are challenging within each level make the Farsi sentence repetition task a promising tool for assessing the language skills of Farsi-English speaking children. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-882dbd2a28f14ebcad76ae46b2150c972022-12-22T02:34:34ZengWhite Rose University PressJournal of the European Second Language Association2399-91012020-04-014110.22599/jesla.5532Sentence Repetition in Farsi-English Bilingual ChildrenMariam Komeili0Theodoros Marinis1Parvaneh Tavakoli2Yalda Kazemi3University of ReadingUniversity of KonstanzUniversity of ReadingDepartment of Speech Therapy, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical SciencesThe current study aimed to create an assessment that can be used in the future to measure the language abilities of Farsi-speaking children in a clinical setting. A Farsi sentence-repetition task was created that included structures organised into three levels of complexity from least to most complex. Twenty typically developing Farsi-English bilingual children between the ages of 6;3–11;6 were recruited from Farsi schools in Toronto, Canada. Significant differences on the participants’ performance among the three levels were found with the lowest performance in the most complex sentences and the highest performance in the least complex ones. Specific structures appeared to be more challenging than others within each level of complexity. The children’s decreasing performance with increasing complexity and the evidence that specific structures are challenging within each level make the Farsi sentence repetition task a promising tool for assessing the language skills of Farsi-English speaking children.https://www.euroslajournal.org/articles/55sentence repetitionbilingualismlanguage impairmentassessment |
| spellingShingle | Mariam Komeili Theodoros Marinis Parvaneh Tavakoli Yalda Kazemi Sentence Repetition in Farsi-English Bilingual Children Journal of the European Second Language Association sentence repetition bilingualism language impairment assessment |
| title | Sentence Repetition in Farsi-English Bilingual Children |
| title_full | Sentence Repetition in Farsi-English Bilingual Children |
| title_fullStr | Sentence Repetition in Farsi-English Bilingual Children |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sentence Repetition in Farsi-English Bilingual Children |
| title_short | Sentence Repetition in Farsi-English Bilingual Children |
| title_sort | sentence repetition in farsi english bilingual children |
| topic | sentence repetition bilingualism language impairment assessment |
| url | https://www.euroslajournal.org/articles/55 |
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