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Zebib, Racha; Henry, Guillemette; Messarra, Camille; Hreich, Edith Kouba; Khomsi, Abdelhamid – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2019
The ELO-L (Évaluation du langage oral chez l'enfant libanais) is the first norm-referenced language-screening test in Lebanon. It is an adaptation of the ELO, a French language-screening test. The ELO-L was normed on 1,718 children aged three to eight years and divided into eight age groups with a minimum of 100 participants in each group. It is…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Construction, Oral Language, Screening Tests
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Aguert, Marc; Laval, Virginie; Le Bigot, Ludovic; Bernicot, Josie – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2010
Purpose: This study was aimed at determining the role of prosody and situational context in children's understanding of expressive utterances. Which one of these 2 cues will help children grasp the speaker's intention? Do children exhibit a "contextual bias" whereby they ignore prosody, such as the "lexical bias" found in other studies (M. Friend…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Cues, Speech Acts, Intention
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Yan, Stephanie; Nicoladis, Elena – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2009
By school age, some bilingual children can score equivalently to monolinguals in receptive vocabulary but still lag in expressive vocabulary. In this study, we test whether bilingual children have greater difficulty with lexical access, as has been reported for adult bilinguals. School-aged French-English bilingual children were given tests of…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Vocabulary Development, Receptive Language