NLP Final Flashcards
(78 cards)
Language Sampling
- represents the child’s daily use of language
- assesses form, content, and use
- done through play-based activity, sequence story picture cards/ describe movie
Poverty is
24,000 or below for a family of 4
Children from poverty backgrounds
Have lower expressive output, conversations revolve around everyday life and have less vocab. knowledge
How is language sampling analyzed
-MLU/ Brown’s stages of morphological development.
- TTR (type-token ratio)
How to calculate type token ratio
Tokens= all words in sample
Types= different words
Type/Token= TTR
- identify 50 consecutive utterances
What is Language Sampling Analysis?
Criterion-referenced- Not normative but compares to set criteria
Formative assessment- natural environment and can be modified in the middle
Examines spontaneous language in natural contexts.
Provides qualitative and quantitative info
Used for birth-5 years of age usually
Language difference
student learning a second language who applies features of their first language to English.
Language disorder
happens when children have difficulties with both languages
Steps for LSA for Early Development
- Collect the sample
- Transcribe the sample
- Count the number of morphemes and utterances
- Compute the MLU
Tips for collecting the LSA sample
- recommended that sample is video/audio recorded
- developmentally appropriate toys
- avoid asking WH questions, do comment on what the child is doing, and use open-ended questions
- repeat what the child is saying to help you later.
considerations for CLD clients
- assessments provided in a non-discriminatory manner
- follow the three guiding principles of assessment
- should test in the client’s most proficient language
Mean Length Utterance
Total # of morphemes/ Total # of utterances
- typically corresponds to age
interventions with culturally and linguistically diverse children
Focus on building vocab. oral narrative skills, literacy skills.
Rules for counting morphemes
Count as one: free morpheme, bound morpheme, compound words, proper names, diminutives ( mommy/horsey), reduplications, wanna, hafta, etc.
Contractions count as two morphemes
- DO NOT count interjections, disfluencies, words that are ‘false starts’
emergent literacy
concepts, behavior and skills that come before and developed into literacy
what does working on emergent literacy look like?
- print referencing (directing the child’s attention to the book)
- print concepts (reading top to bottom, following the words when reading)
- rhyming, letter sounds
- story structure and retelling
T-Unit analysis
- meant for older kids
- determines the complexity of sentences
- T-unit= each independent clause with its modifiers
ie. One main clause with all subordinates attached to it.
EACH NEW CLAUSE= new t-unit
simple view of reading
Gough and tunmer theory
reading comprehension is composed of decoding and language comprehension
Clauses
Utterances containing subject (NP) + predicate (VP)
Example: Drivers can get frustrated=MC
When there is traffic= SC
b/c MC can stand alone SC cannot
Scarborough’s reading rope
language comprehension and word recognition skills will lead to skilled and fluent reading
Coordinating conjunctions in t-units
FANBOYS aka linking two main clauses t-unit=2
Six ts of effective literacy instruction
- time
- texts
- talk
- tasks
- teach
- testing
Challs stages of reading development
- emerging literacy: 0-5. understanding of spoken language and phonological development
- initial reading: kg and 1st grade. letter to sound correspondence, recognition of basic words
- confirmation, fluency, and ungluing from print: end of 1st and 2nd grade. Becoming a fluent reader, comprehension, sight words
- reading for learning: 3rd -8th: gaining knowledge through text
- multiple viewpoints: high school. developing multiple points of view, facts, and concepts and interpreting complex texts (poems)
- construction and reconstruction: college. purpose-driven and strategic reading
Subordinating conjunctions
Conjunction-link main to sub clause
ex: because, when, that, after, so, which, while, until, like as, if, unless, what