A long-term predictive validity study: can the CDI Short Form be used to predict language and early literacy skills four years later?
| Autor: | Dilara Deniz Can, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Marika Ginsburg-Block |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Predictive validity
Male Linguistics and Language Vocabulary media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Semantics Language and Linguistics Developmental psychology Phonetics Predictive Value of Tests Surveys and Questionnaires Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Longitudinal Studies Child General Psychology media_common Language Language Tests Phonemic awareness Age Factors Infant Pragmatics Language acquisition Linguistics Vocabulary development Language development Child Preschool Female Psychology Child Language |
| Zdroj: | Journal of child language. 40(4) |
| ISSN: | 1469-7602 |
| Popis: | This longitudinal study examined the predictive validity of the MacArthur Communicative Developmental Inventories-Short Form (CDI-SF), a parent report questionnaire about children's language development (Fenson, Pethick, Renda, Cox, Dale & Reznick, 2000). Data were first gathered from parents on the CDI-SF vocabulary scores for seventy-six children (mean age=1 ; 10). Four years later (mean age=6 ; 1), children were assessed on language outcomes (expressive vocabulary, syntax, semantics and pragmatics) and code-related skills, including phonemic awareness, word recognition and decoding skills. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that early expressive vocabulary accounted for 17% of the variance in picture vocabulary, 11% of the variance in syntax, and 7% of the variance in semantics, while not accounting for any variance in pragmatics in kindergarten. CDI-SF scores did not predict code-related skills in kindergarten. The importance of early vocabulary skills for later language development and CDI-SF as a valuable research tool are discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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