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Quantifying Uses of Open-Ended Questions and Contingent Comments in Language Sampling: A Methodological Study

Spangenberg, Amanda May
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1530870714910087

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2018, Master of Science (MS), Bowling Green State University, Communication Disorders.
Language samples are used in speech-language pathology to measure children’s language development. There are many language elicitation recommendations provided in the literature for obtaining a language sample that best represents the child’s language use. The recommendations to ask open-ended questions and use contingency during language sample elicitation are described as being helpful in obtaining language samples that best represent the child’s language abilities. However, these recommendations currently have no systematic way of being quantified. The first research question sought to quantify uses of the two above-mentioned language elicitation recommendations. Open-ended questions were quantified based on the complexity of their structure, ranging from closed-ended to open-ended (i.e., questions that could elicit noun phrases, prepositional phrases, verb phrases, yes/no responses, and full sentences). Contingency was quantified based on the number of content words in common between child and examiner speaking turns. Inter-rater reliability was established for coding questions, whereas contingency coding was completed through consensus between two coders. The coding scheme was used to answer the second and third research questions by providing descriptive statistics for expert examiners’ use of the two recommendations. The most common question type examiners asked was yes/no questions, followed by noun phrase questions. Prepositional phrase, verb phrase, and full sentence questions occurred less frequently. When children used at least one content word, examiners’ responses most frequently contained no content word(s) from the child’s previous speaking turn. Examples of open-ended questions that afford the opportunity for eliciting different responses are provided and the multifaceted nature of contingency is described.
Colleen Fitzgerald, PhD (Advisor)
Tim Brackenbury, PhD (Committee Member)
Lynne Hewitt, PhD (Committee Member)
Speech Therapy
language sampling; open-ended questions; contingent comments; methodology

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  • Spangenberg, A. M. (2018). Quantifying Uses of Open-Ended Questions and Contingent Comments in Language Sampling: A Methodological Study [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1530870714910087

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Spangenberg, Amanda. Quantifying Uses of Open-Ended Questions and Contingent Comments in Language Sampling: A Methodological Study. 2018. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1530870714910087.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Spangenberg, Amanda. "Quantifying Uses of Open-Ended Questions and Contingent Comments in Language Sampling: A Methodological Study." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1530870714910087

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