Measuring Listening Comprehension and Predicting Language Development in At-Risk Preschoolers

Autor/inn/en	Hagen, Åste Mjelve; Knoph, Rebecca; Hjetland, Hanne Naess; Rogde, Kristin; Lawrence, Joshua Fahey; Lervåg, Arne; Melby-Lervåg, Monica
Titel	Measuring Listening Comprehension and Predicting Language Development in At-Risk Preschoolers
Quelle	In: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 66 (2022) 5, S.778-792 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0031-3831
DOI	10.1080/00313831.2021.1939136
Schlagwörter	Preschool Children; At Risk Students; Listening Comprehension; Language Acquisition; Measures (Individuals); Item Response Theory; Measurement Techniques; Validity; Reliability; Time Factors (Learning); Foreign Countries; Cognitive Development; Intelligence Tests; Language Tests; Psycholinguistics; Predictive Measurement; Scandinavia; Norway; Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence; Neale Analysis of Reading Ability; Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities; Raven Progressive Matrices + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Hörverständnis; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Messdaten; Item-Response-Theorie; Messtechnik; Gültigkeit; Reliabilität; Ausland; Kognitive Entwicklung; Intelligence test; Intelligenztest; Language test; Sprachtest; Psycholinguistik; Skandinavien; Norwegen
Abstract	Listening comprehension involves the ability to understand and extract meaning from spoken sentences, stories, and instruction. This skill is vital for young children and has long-term effects on school achievement, employability, income, and participation in society. There is a lack of measures of young children's listening comprehension skills. We report on a new measure of listening comprehension (LURI) that we tested in a group of at-risk preschoolers. Using IRT (Item Response Theory) analysis, we examined the psychometric properties of the instrument. Moreover, in a series of regressions, we found that the LURI measure predicted a range of other language skills better than standardized measures. Thus, the LURI test is a reliable and valid measure of listening comprehension. Assessing listening comprehension is a time-effective way of measuring a skill critically important to language development and represents the product of a range of different oral language processes. (As Provided).
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