Mothers' judgement of the representativeness of their sons' language samples in relation to volume of language produced
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2005
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Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University
Abstract
The analysis of language elicited during naturally occurring situations forms the
cornerstone of a child language assessment protocol and is used for the planning and
monitoring of intervention (Dunn, Flax, Sliwinski, and Aram 1996; Evans and Miller
1999). A 1997 survey revealed that 85% of speech-language therapists in the United States
of America use language samples during language assessment with children (Kemp and
Klee 1997). One reason for the frequent use of language samples is the limitations of
standardised language tests (cf., amongst others, Hawkins and Spencer 1985). Another
reason is the lack of assessment tools, especially culturally fair ones, for clients from
nonmainstream groups (Peña, Quinn, and Iglesias 1992; Toronto and Merrill 1983).
Consider the situation of Afrikaans, for example: According to the 2001 census results
(Statistics South Africa 2003), this language is spoken as mother-tongue by 13% of the
South African population (i.e., by 6 million people). Considering that Afrikaans is not
widely spoken outside of the country, it could thus be viewed as a nonmainstream
language compared to, for instance, English, the language which has the world's third
largest number of mother-tongue speakers, viz. 322 million (Grimes 1996).
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CITATION: Southwood, F. & Russell, A. F. 2005. Mothers' judgement of the representativeness of their sons' language samples in relation to volume of language produced. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 36:85-112, doi:10.5774/36-0-14.
The original publication is available at https://spil.journals.ac.za
The original publication is available at https://spil.journals.ac.za
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Language acquisition
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Southwood, F. and Russell, A.F. 2005. Mothers' Judgement Of The Representativeness Of Their Sons' Language Samples In Relation To Volume Of Language Produced. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, vol.36(pp.85-113), http://spil.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/14/49
Southwood, F. & Russell, A. F. 2005. Mothers' judgement of the representativeness of their sons' language samples in relation to volume of language produced. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 36:85-112, doi:10.5774/36-0-14.
Southwood, F. & Russell, A. F. 2005. Mothers' judgement of the representativeness of their sons' language samples in relation to volume of language produced. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 36:85-112, doi:10.5774/36-0-14.