Oral Language Performance of Upper Elementary School Students Obtained via Story Reformulation
- 1 October 1980
- journal article
- Published by American Speech Language Hearing Association in Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools
- Vol. 11 (4) , 236-250
- https://doi.org/10.1044/0161-1461.1104.236
Abstract
Data are presented on the mean length of utterance, use of five syntactical structures, and use of five features of story content that characterized the oral language of four grade levels (4th–7th) of students within a 240-student population (60 at each level) as they reformulated a complex story. The interplay between the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of the oral language performance is discussed. Performance features and their cutoff criteria are suggested for a clinical use of the reformulation task in an initial pass/fail screening of the oral language ability of students at the upper elementary school level. A recommended analysis procedure is also presented.Keywords
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