Convergence of two language assessment measures with ability in school-age Spanish-English bilingual children
Abstract
There is a documented need for appropriate language assessment measures for
Spanish-English bilingual school-age children in the United States. The Bilingual English
Spanish Assessment- Middle Extension (BESA-ME), the Test of Narrative Language
(TNL), and the Test of Narrative Language- Spanish experimental version (Spanish TNL)
were administered to 129 children ranging in age from 7;0 to 8;11. Convergence between
the measures was examined. The results indicated a strong correlation between
measures, as well as significant correlation between each measure and children’s ability
level (i.e. classification as typically developing or with language impairment). These
results present the BESA-ME and the TNL in Spanish and English as promising tools to
assess language impairment in a population that traditionally has been a challenge to
evaluate.
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