The aim of the study was to analize definitional skills and metalinguistic acquisition in children with learning disabilities. Participants were 13 children with learning disabilities (mean age 9.2 years) and 13 typically devloping children (mean age 8.4 years). A definitional task presenting 24 terms (nouns, verbs and adjectives, either concrete or abstract) and a task examining 6 differents aspects of metalinguistic awareness were used. Results show a better performance on definitional task and on two components of metalinguistic awareness (syntactic awareness and literacy) in typically developing children. The rle of morpho-syntactic competence and metalinguistic abilities of the groups is discussed.
Competenza definitoria e metalinguistica in bambini con Difficoltà di Apprendimento
BELACCHI, CARMEN
2007
Abstract
The aim of the study was to analize definitional skills and metalinguistic acquisition in children with learning disabilities. Participants were 13 children with learning disabilities (mean age 9.2 years) and 13 typically devloping children (mean age 8.4 years). A definitional task presenting 24 terms (nouns, verbs and adjectives, either concrete or abstract) and a task examining 6 differents aspects of metalinguistic awareness were used. Results show a better performance on definitional task and on two components of metalinguistic awareness (syntactic awareness and literacy) in typically developing children. The rle of morpho-syntactic competence and metalinguistic abilities of the groups is discussed.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
