The Norwegian CDI-III as an assessment tool for lexical and grammatical development in preschoolers

Frontiers in Psychology

Psychology

Elisabeth Holm¹  Nina Gram Garmann¹  Anna Sara H. Romøren¹  Pernille Bonnevie Hansen² 

[1] Department of Early Childhood Education, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway;Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Hamar, Norway;

关键词: language acquisition;    parental report;    CDI;    vocabulary;    assessment;    preschoolers;    item difficulty;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1175658

 received in 2023-02-27, accepted in 2023-06-09,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Parental report instruments are a non-invasive way to assess children’s language development and have proved to give both valid and reliable results when used with children under the age of 2;6 (and in some cases up to 3). In this study we examine the newly developed Norwegian edition of a language assessment tool for older preschoolers: MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory III (CDI-III), investigating whether this parental report tool can be used for assessing the language of monolingual Norwegian-speaking children between 2;6 and 4 years. NCDI-III results for 100 children between 2;6 and 4.0 are presented. All sections were significantly intercorrelated. All sections except Pronunciation showed growth with age. Internal consistency was measured both in terms of Cronbach’s alpha and corrected item-scale correlation, and the results are discussed considering features of item difficulty distribution. Methodological considerations are discussed, as well as implications relevant both for possible later revisions and for CDI-III adaptations to new languages.

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