Language Sampling Protocols for Eliciting Text-Level Discourse
- 1 July 1998
- journal article
- Published by American Speech Language Hearing Association in Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools
- Vol. 29 (3), 132-147
- https://doi.org/10.1044/0161-1461.2903.132
Abstract
The identification of linguistic vulnerability in school-age students is likely to require collecting and analyzing samples of text-level discourse. Text-level discourse produced as part of narrative and expository tasks is more likely to reveal school-age children's most advanced language abilities and to evoke more communication breakdowns and production errors. This article briefly reviews the research literature establishing the need to sample text-level discourse and identifies several issues for clinicians to consider when constructing their own language sampling protocols. The article concludes with the description of two different protocols that could be used in school- and clinic-based settings, along with examples of how these protocols have been administered and analyzed for clinical purposes.Keywords
This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
- Clinical language sampling practices: results of a survey of speech-language pathologists in the United StatesChild Language Teaching and Therapy, 1997
- Conversations With Children Who Are Language ImpairedJournal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1993
- Language Sampling PracticesLanguage, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1993
- Causal Coherence in the Oral Narratives of Spanish-Speaking ChildrenJournal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1992
- Language Sample Collection and AnalysisJournal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1992
- A procedure for classifying disruptions in spontaneous language samplesTopics in Language Disorders, 1992
- Video Narration as a Language Sampling ContextJournal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1990
- The Lack of Efficacy in Language TherapyLanguage, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1988
- Cohesion in the Narratives of Normal and Language-Disordered ChildrenJournal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1985
- Story Retelling as a Communicative Performance Screening ToolLanguage, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1983