Validation of a Greek Sentence Repetition Task with Typically Developing Monolingual and Bilingual Children.
Bilingualism
Greek
Psychometric evaluation
Sentence repetition
Typical Language Development
Validation
Journal
Journal of psycholinguistic research
ISSN: 1573-6555
Titre abrégé: J Psycholinguist Res
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0333506
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Apr 2022
Apr 2022
Historique:
accepted:
11
02
2022
pubmed:
15
3
2022
medline:
26
4
2022
entrez:
14
3
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
This study provides a preliminary validation of a Greek Sentence Repetition Task (SRT) with a sample of 110 monolingual and bilingual typically developing (TLD) children and examines the test's ability to distinguish between Greek monolingual children and age-matched Albanian-Greek bilinguals using a Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) analysis. This is the first study to report on the psychometric evaluation of a Greek SRT and its discriminatory ability with typical populations. Since most language assessments are standardized with monolinguals and bilingual children tend to underperform on these compared to monolinguals, it is essential to establish the level of bilingual TLD children's ability on the same tests before moving on to diagnose language impairment in bilinguals. Results showed that the Greek SRT had very high validity and reliability scores, with Accuracy measures being more reliable than Grammaticality measures. The school-age monolingual and bilingual TLD children reached different cut-off scores on this task.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35286538
doi: 10.1007/s10936-022-09853-z
pii: 10.1007/s10936-022-09853-z
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
373-395Subventions
Organisme : European Social Fund
ID : MIS377313
Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
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