The purpose of this study was to examine the cognitive, syntactic, and pragmatic language skills of school age children. Subjects were chosen from sixth and ninth grades and randomly placed in one of two interaction paradigms. A common task, construction of a geometric puzzle, was presented to a group of subjects by the examiner and those subjects then taught the task to their peers. / In the first interaction paradigm subjects were asked to answer three question strategies; definitive, empirical and evaluative. In the second interaction paradigm the subjects teaching the task asked questions of their own design with the evaluative questions being asked by the examiner upon completion of the puzzle task. Each subject also gave a narrative three to five minutes in length. Cognition was measured by the reasoning cluster of the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery. / Responses to questions were analyzed descriptively for all subjects for differences in function using a pragmatic taxonomy developed for this study. Narratives were analyzed descriptively for differences in syntax using the Language Assessment Remediation Screening Procedure. Narratives were analyzed statistically for differences in T-unit length, clause length and clause usage. Correlations were drawn between cognitive test scores with T-unit length, clause length and clauses per T-unit. / Findings indicated statistically significant differences between groups in the words per T-unit and the words per clause used in the narratives. Descriptive differences were found between groups in the use of response and question strategies. Differences were also found in the type, but not the number of verb extensions between groups. Correlations between language and cognitive test scores were not statistically significant. The implications of the results in the evaluation and treatment of the language disordered child were discussed. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-03, Section: B, page: 0689. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74805 |
| Contributors | KLECAN, JOAN SHEPARD., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 137 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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