TY - JOUR
T1 - Validation of a Greek sentence repetition task with typically developing monolingual and bilingual children
AU - Prentza, Alexandra
AU - Tafiadis, Anastasios
AU - Chondrogianni, Vicky
AU - Tsimpli, Ianthi-Maria
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was co-financed by the European Union (European Social Fund – ESF) and Greek national funds through the operational program “Education and Lifelong Learning” of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) – Research Funding Program: Thales. Investing in knowledge society through the European Social Fund. Thales FP7 Project “Bilingual Acquisition & Bilingual Education: The Development of Linguistic & Cognitive Abilities in Different Types of Bilingualism” (BALED – Award No MIS377313). PI: IM Tsimpli.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2022/3/14
Y1 - 2022/3/14
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - sentence repetition
KW - Greek
KW - validation
KW - bilingualism
KW - typical language development
U2 - 10.1007/s10936-022-09853-z
DO - 10.1007/s10936-022-09853-z
M3 - Article
SN - 0090-6905
JO - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
JF - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
ER -