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Assessment of complement clauses: a comparison between elicitation tasks and language sample data.

Gillian Steel¹, Miranda Rose, Patricia Eadie

¹La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. gesteel@students.latrobe.edu.au

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

|April 17, 2013

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Elicitation tasks provide more comprehensive data on preschool children's complement clause production than language sampling. Language samples underestimate children's abilities in this area.

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Area of Science:

Child Language Acquisition
Linguistic Development
Speech-Language Pathology

Background:

Understanding children's grammatical development, specifically complement clause production, is crucial for accurate language assessment.
Current methods like language sampling may not fully capture a child's linguistic capabilities.
Speech-language pathologists require reliable assessment tools for effective intervention planning.

Purpose of the Study:

To compare the effectiveness of elicitation tasks versus language sampling in assessing preschool children's complement clause production.
To determine if elicitation tasks yield more diverse verb usage for complement clauses compared to language samples.
To investigate whether language sampling underestimates children's competence with complement clauses.

Main Methods:

Investigated 20 preschool children (aged 3;11-5;3 years).
Administered two specific elicitation tasks designed to prompt complement clause production.
Collected a 100-utterance language sample from each child.

Main Results:

Elicitation tasks yielded significantly more examples of both types of complement clauses studied.
Children produced a wider range of verbs to form complement clauses in elicitation tasks.
Language sampling data were found to underestimate preschool children's complement clause abilities.

Conclusions:

Elicitation tasks and language sampling yield different information regarding children's complement clause production.
Elicitation tasks offer a more accurate and potentially efficient method for assessing complement clause competency in young children.
Findings highlight the need for speech-language pathologists to consider alternative assessment methods like elicitation tasks.