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Syntactic processing ability of children with specific language impairment

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2011, 12(4), pp.93-111
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

김화수 1 장만순 1 김성수 2

1대구대학교
2동신대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study was aimed to identify the syntactic processing abilities of children with specific language impairment(SLI). Two groups of children(SLI & NL group) were participated in this experiment. We created eight types of task sentences in according to different position of relative clause, head noun’s parallel function, and the role of relative clauses and examined children’s comprehension of these 8 types of sentences using an alternative acting-out tasks proposed by Corrêa(1996). Children with SLI were significantly less accurate than the normal children in relative clause comprehension tasks. Both groups of children’s accuracies were greater for left branching sentences than for center-embedded ones and were greater for subject relative clauses than for object relative ones. As a result, it was confirmed that SLI’s deficits in syntactic area was related to not only semantic processing but also syntactic processing ability which enables to form a sentence structure by using the syntactic information within the sentences. Therefore, it is necessary to teaching syntactic information processing skills when treating SLI’s deficits of syntactic area.

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