The purpose of this project was to examine the impact of dialect on the confrontation naming of Chilean and Mexican-American pre-schoolers. Experiment 1examined responses of Chilean dialect speakers to stimuli from the Expressive One Word Picture Vocabulary Test-Bilingual Edition (EOWPVT-BE) and the Assessment of Phonological Patterns Spanish 2nd Edition (APPS-2). Experiment 2 examined responses of Mexican-American dialect speakers to stimuli from the EOWPVT-BE. Both groups demonstrated an increase in raw and standard scores when dialectally appropriate responses were counted as correct. Mean increase in raw score was 8.2% for the Chilean participants. Mean increase in the standard score was 5.6% for the Mexican-American participants. The difference in scores, for some participants, was sufficient to alter the interpretation of test results. Tests which do not recognize a dialect in the standardization sample may overestimate impairment and/or underestimate ability.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TCU/oai:etd.tcu.edu:etd-05052010-084541 |
| Date | 05 May 2010 |
| Creators | Cameron, Christy |
| Contributors | Maria Munoz |
| Publisher | Texas Christian University |
| Source Sets | Texas Christian University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf, application/octet-stream |
| Source | http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-05052010-084541/ |
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