What is Language Comprehension? Flashcards
Demonstration of language comprehension involves much more than simply_______ what individual words mean.
knowing
receptive language+ understanding language=
language comprehension (decoding language input present in childs environment)
Language Comprehension relates to the process of turning a highly complicated set of acoustic signals into a _________.
meaningful message
Language Comprehension refers to an individuals ability to understand the info in a message which is augmented by ?
- The message’s specific nonlinguistic context (who is speaking, what visual info is available) 2. World Knowledge
If complete linguistic info is unavailable, child relies more on _______available and _____ becomes more crucial for understanding
- non linguistic info. 2. context
Areas crucial for successful language comprehension?
social knowledge, understanding of intentionality, inferencing, script knowledge
What are the difficulties computer programs have in making translations between languages?
necessity for such a holistic approach; translation is more than word for word transformation from one language to another
Social knowledge needs to be able to understand intentionality like , _________, ___________, to ______
body language, tonal voice to make guesses
As a clinician must ______ non- linguistic cues when testing children for comprehension
exclude
Subconciously we give children gesture cues to get childs attention, and ________ of child doing action may match action that is given
timing sequence
Credit for successful response shouldn’t be given because response was gonna be underway before caregiver said anything
Pseudo - Success
Can test for comprehension later in a different setting to test for comprehension like it can be ______
Play based
How do we incorporate this information into our clinical work?
When testing children on comprehension skills, SLP must provide tasks that are not emphasized by non-linguistic cues
