LANGUAGE SAMPLING

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LANGUAGE SAMPLING
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A language sample is

• A collection of a childs utterances
• Experts recommend that you get 100-200 utterances

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When you collect a language sample
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Paul Norbury, 2012
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Haynes Pindzola 2012
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Haynes Pindzola, 2012
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Ideally
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Owens 2010 states that
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According to Owens 2010
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Use a variety of materials!

• You can use toys, books, games
• You can also ask about topics the child is
  interested in

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Interesting topics for children
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To analyze syntactic skills, evaluate the childs
use of
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To analyze morphological skills

• Evoke the possessive morpheme by using activities
  and pictures and asking questions such as Whose
  is this?
• Use pictures to assess a childs production of
  regular and irregular plural nouns
• Use pictures/activities to assess use of present
  progressive ing

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To further analyze morphological skills

• Assess past-tense constructions by telling a
  story and asking the child to re-tell the story

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To assess semantic skills
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Haynes Pindzola (2012)in older students
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To assess pragmatic skills, look for
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Rice et al., April 2010, Journal of Speech,
Language, and Hearing Research Mean length of
utterance levels for children 3-9 years with and
without language impairments

• We calculate mean length of utterance, or MLU
• MLU refers to the average number of morphemes in
  childrens utterances

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Rice et al. 2010 state that