Metalinguistic Skills of Children with Varying Language Abilities

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Metalinguistic Skills of Children with Varying Language Abilities

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Kriegel, Ashlyn N

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2018-05-06

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This study examined the differences between the performance on metalinguistic tasks between children with typical language development and those with weak language skills. Research Bilingual children will be used as a base for stronger metalinguistic abilities and I will discuss what bilingual children’s metalinguistic abilities taught researchers and how it applies to monolinguals and monolinguals with language impairment. Studies also typically use normal language acquiring monolingual children as a control group to compare to bilinguals and/or monolinguals with language impairment. Results indicate that bilinguals have the strongest metalinguistic abilities and monolinguals with language impairment the lowest. I then will include my own research done in Dr. Lizbeth Finestack’s Child Language Lab, comparing monolingual typically developing and low language skilled children between the ages of 4-8 years. This study will use a variety of examinations, looking at verbal skills, nonverbal skills, low-language skills, and metalinguistic skills. The paper concludes that monolinguals with low language skills have impaired metalinguistic skills which influences the strength of their verbal language abilities.

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Metalinguistic abilities

Executive functioning

Language impairment

Language skills

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This research was supported by the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP).

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Kriegel, Ashlyn N. (2018). Metalinguistic Skills of Children with Varying Language Abilities. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/196383.

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