Sentence Repetition in Farsi-English Bilingual Children

Mariam Komeili, T. Marinis, P. Tavakoli, Y. Kazemi
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The current study aimed to create an assessment that can be used in the future to measure the language abilities of Farsi-speaking children in a clinical setting. A Farsi sentence-repetition task was created that included structures organised into three levels of complexity from least to most complex. Twenty typically developing Farsi-English bilingual children between the ages of 6;3–11;6 were recruited from Farsi schools in Toronto, Canada. Significant differences on the participants’ performance among the three levels were found with the lowest performance in the most complex sentences and the highest performance in the least complex ones. Specific structures appeared to be more challenging than others within each level of complexity. The children’s decreasing performance with increasing complexity and the evidence that specific structures are challenging within each level make the Farsi sentence repetition task a promising tool for assessing the language skills of Farsi-English speaking children.
波斯语-英语双语儿童的句子重复
目前的研究旨在建立一种评估方法,可以在将来用于临床环境中测量波斯语儿童的语言能力。他们创建了一个波斯语句子重复任务,其中包括从最简单到最复杂的三个复杂级别的结构。从加拿大多伦多的波斯语学校招募了20名年龄在6岁至11岁之间的典型的波斯语-英语双语儿童。在三个层次上,参与者的表现存在显著差异,最复杂句的表现最低,最不复杂句的表现最高。在每个复杂程度中,特定结构似乎比其他结构更具挑战性。波斯语句子重复任务是评估波斯语-英语儿童语言技能的一个很有前途的工具,因为孩子的表现随着复杂性的增加而下降,并且有证据表明,在每个级别中,特定的结构都是具有挑战性的。
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