Development of Communication Skills in Finnish Pre-School Children Examined by the Children's Communication Checklist (CCC)

Autor/inn/en	Yliherva, Anneli; Loukusa, Soile; Vaisanen, Raija; Pyper, Amanda; Moilanen, Irma
Titel	Development of Communication Skills in Finnish Pre-School Children Examined by the Children's Communication Checklist (CCC)
Quelle	In: Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 25 (2009) 2, S.235-249 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0265-6590
DOI	10.1177/0265659009102978
Schlagwörter	Check Lists; Rhetoric; Syntax; Preschool Children; Communication Skills; Foreign Countries; Measures (Individuals); Gender Differences; Pragmatics; Child Language; Language Acquisition; Cultural Background; Second Languages; Finland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Checkliste; Rhetorik; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Kommunikationsstil; Ausland; Messdaten; Geschlechterkonflikt; Pragmalinguistik; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Second language; Zweitsprache; Finnland
Abstract	The communication skills of typically developing Finnish-speaking children between three and six years of age were examined using the Children's Communication Checklist (CCC). The differences between the boys and girls were also investigated. Results showed that the performance of the three-year-old children differed on the Speech subscale of the CCC compared to the five-year-old and six-year-old children and on the Syntax, Coherence and Use of Context subscales from the six-year-old children. Four-year-old children differed from the six-year-olds on the Syntax and Coherence subscales, and the five-year-olds differed from the six-year-olds on the Rapport subscale. Boys performed similarly to girls except on the Interests scale where the boys' performance was poorer. The CCC was effective in evaluating typical communication skills in pre-school children, and it can be used to investigate pragmatic skills in children as young as three years of age. As the development of pragmatic abilities may develop differently across languages and cultures, studies about children's pragmatic development in different languages and cultural backgrounds are needed to identify if there is a universal developmental pattern of communication, as well as features that are specific to a given culture and to a given language. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10