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- Title
Oral Language and Listening Comprehension: Same or Different Constructs?
- Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to add to our understanding of the dimensionality of oral language in children and to determine whether oral language and listening comprehension are separate constructs in children enrolled in preschool (PK) through 3rd grade. Method: In the spring of the school year, children from 4 states (N = 1,869) completed multiple measures of oral language (i.e., expressive and receptive vocabulary and grammar) and listening comprehension as part of a larger study of the language bases of reading comprehension. Results: Initial confirmatory factor analysis found evidence that measures of oral language and listening comprehension loaded on two separate factors in PK through 3rd grade; however, these factors were highly correlated at all grades. Conclusions: These results suggest that oral language and listening comprehension are best characterized as a single oral language construct in PK through 3rd grade. The implications for early identification and intervention are discussed.
- Subjects
ORAL communication; LISTENING comprehension; LANGUAGE awareness in children; PRESCHOOL children; COMMUNICATIVE competence; COMMUNICATIVE competence in children; ENGLISH grammar ability testing; VOCABULARY ability testing; STUDY &; teaching of reading comprehension; CHI-squared test; LISTENING; SPEECH; CROSS-sectional method
- Publication
Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research, 2017, Vol 60, Issue 5, p1273
- ISSN
1092-4388
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1044/2017_JSLHR-L-16-0039