Developing language assessment

Question 1

What should be done to assess phonology in the developing language period?

Answer 1

Phonetic inventory

Question 2

What should be done to assess semantics in the developing language period?

Answer 2

Look at word classes: Spatial words(in, on, under, behind, etc), wh- words, parents (names of family members). Functional words.

Question 3

What should be looked at to assess syntax and morphology in the developing language period?

Answer 3

Decontextualization-are they able to refer to things not right in front of them?

• understand familiar scripts and nonlinguistic cues?
• child centered approach if they understnad.
• probing
• grammatical morpheme analysis, structural analysis stage, verbs

Question 4

What should be done to assess pragmatics?

Answer 4

Westby’s play scale
Communicative intent
Conversational ability