Learning New Word Meanings Through Reading by Children With Language Impairment and Typically Developing Peers
Steele, Sara Christine
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Description
Title
Learning New Word Meanings Through Reading by Children With Language Impairment and Typically Developing Peers
Author(s)
Steele, Sara Christine
Issue Date
2008
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Ruth Watkins
Department of Study
Speech and Hearing Science
Discipline
Speech and Hearing Science
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Health Sciences, Speech Pathology
Language
eng
Abstract
This study investigated word learning during reading in 15 children with language impairment (LI), 15 age matched peers, and 12 language compared children. The study sought to determine whether children with LI differed from their peers in their ability to learn new word meanings during reading, and whether position of informative context and number of exposures to target words influenced word learning. One significant finding from the study showed that children with LI scored lower than typically developing children on word learning tasks. Additionally, all children scored higher on words presented more frequently, though the position of informative context did not affect scores. Supplementary information was gained through post-hoc analysis of children's oral definition responses. First, all children benefitted from being given a contextual clue, though the typically developing children benefitted more than the children with LI. Second, children with LI produced a different pattern of error responses than the typically developing peers. The findings of the study point to clinical implications and directions for future research.
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