Sentence repetition in Farsi-English bilingual children

Komeili, M., Marinis, T., Tavakoli, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0807-3709 and Kazemi, Y. (2020) Sentence repetition in Farsi-English bilingual children. Journal of the European Second Language Association, 4 (1). pp. 1-12. ISSN 2399-9101 doi: 10.22599/jesla.55

Abstract/Summary

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. Signi cant di erences 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. Speci c 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 speci c 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.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/90584
Identification Number/DOI	10.22599/jesla.55
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IDRCs) > Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Literature and Languages > English Language and Applied Linguistics Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Department of Clinical Language Sciences
Publisher	European Second Language Association
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