D'haeseleer, Evelien

De Smet, Ann-Sophie

Van Lierde, Kristiane

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ConclusionThe purpose of this study was to measure and compare expressive and receptive Dutch language skills in six year old sequential bilingual Turkish-Dutch children compared to monolingual Dutch children in Flanders.Purpose SubjectsN=50Mean age: 6 years, 7 months (range: 6;1 y – 6;11 y)Inclusion criteria: - Born in 2007, aged between 6 y and 6;11 y- First year at primary school in Ghent, Flanders- Following normal education- Normal cognitive development as reported by the parentsand the teacher- Absence of identifiable neurological abnormality and developmental disordersSUBJECT GROUPn = 25- Sequential bilingual Turkish-Dutch children- 14 girls, 11 boys- Turkish as mother tongue- Minimum exposure Dutch: 2 yearsCONTROL GROUPn = 25- Monolingual Dutchchildren- 14 girls, 11 boys- Dutch as mother tongue- Matched with subject group for- Age (+- 2 months)- GenderMethodsParental questionnaire- Demographic data- Data language exposureClinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals (CELF-4 NL, Dutch version)- Core Language Index (CLI),- Expressive Language Index (ELI)- Receptive Language Index (RLI) Same assessment protocol for the subject and control groupResultsCELF-4-NLIn percentile scoresSubject group Control groupMean Median SD Mean Median SD p-valueCLI 5.3 1.2 1.9 59.8 57.9 4.8 < 0.001*ELI 5.0 1.9 1.6 64.5 72.6 4.9 < 0.001*RLI 9.6 2.7 3.1 52.9 55.3 5.3 < 0.001*Expressive and receptive language skills in six year old sequential bilingual Turkish-Dutch children compared to monolingual Dutch children in Flanders.Evelien D’haeseleer1, Anne-Sophie Smet1, Kristiane Van Lierde1,21 Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium2 Department of Speech-Language Pathology  and Audiology, University Of PretoriaNormative data non-Western immigrantsMean pcCLI 25.2ELI 25.2RLI 29.7Bilingual Turkish-Dutch children scored significantly lower for all subtest compared to the monolingual Dutch speaking children. For the CLI, thegroup of Turkish children scored 54.5 percentiles (or 3 standard deviations) lower than the control group. For the RLI and the ELI the meanpercentile scores were respectively 43.3 and 59.8 percentiles lower than the control group. The scores on the three subtests in the subject groupwere also lower (mean difference of 20 percentiles) compared to the norm scores for non-western immigrants of the CELF-4 NL.The results of this study show that Turkish bilingual children in Flanders (with a minimum exposure to Dutch of 2 years) score significantlylower for expressive and receptive language skills compared to monolingual Dutch children at the age of 6. The results for expressive andreceptive language in the sequential bilingual children were even lower than the normative data of the CELF for non-Western immigrants.The impact of other influencing factors, like socioeconomic status, neonatal outcome, psychological factors and long-term follow up of thelanguage abilities of these children are subject for further research. Language scores of different immigrant groups in different cities mightvary and more research is necessary to investigate the language abilities of these children and to improve language support.

Expressive and receptive language skills in six year old sequential bilingual Turkish-Dutch children compared to monolingual Dutch children in Flanders

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Expressive and receptive language skills in six year old sequential bilingual Turkish-Dutch children compared to monolingual Dutch children in Flanders

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