Early Vocabulary Development in Rural and Urban Mozambique

Q1 Social Sciences
P. Vogt, J. Mastin, Suzanne Aussems
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Abstract

This paper presents an adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (short version) into three languages spoken in Southern Mozambique. The tool was adapted to study vocabulary development among children of 12 to 25 months of age in two communities: a rural, monolingual Changana speaking community and an urban bilingual Ronga and Portuguese speaking community. We present a norming study carried out with the adaptation, as well as a validation study. The norming study revealed various predictors for reported expressive and receptive vocabulary size. These predictors include age, socioeconomic status, reported health problems, caregiving practices, and location. The validation of the CDI among a small sample in both communities shows positive correlations between the reported expressive vocabulary scores and children’s recorded word production. We conclude that the adapted CDI is useful for research purposes and could be used as a template for adaptations into other languages from similar cultures.
莫桑比克农村和城市早期词汇发展
本文介绍了麦克阿瑟-贝茨交际发展量表(简短版)在莫桑比克南部三种语言中的改编。该工具被用于研究两个社区12至25个月大儿童的词汇发展:一个是农村的单语昌加纳语社区,一个是城市的双语荣加语和葡萄牙语社区。我们提出了一项规范研究与适应进行,以及验证研究。规范化研究揭示了报告的表达性和接受性词汇量的各种预测因素。这些预测因素包括年龄、社会经济地位、报告的健康问题、护理实践和地点。在两个社区的小样本中对CDI的验证表明,报告的表达性词汇得分与儿童记录的单词生成之间存在正相关。我们的结论是,改编后的CDI对研究目的是有用的,并且可以用作从类似文化中改编成其他语言的模板。
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Child development research
Child development research Social Sciences-Linguistics and Language
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期刊介绍: Child Development Research is a peer-reviewed, Open Access journal that publishes original research articles as well as review articles in all areas of child development research.
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