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Jinzhu Zhao; Lina Tang; Jinhui Li; Tianyi He; Tingting Xiong; Lu Xu; Xuejin He; Shan Huang; Xueman Lucy Liu; Yan Hao – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: Standardised Mandarin assessment tools for examining difficulties in language comprehension and expression at different developmental stages are limited in China. The first comprehensive standardised Mandarin assessment tool is the Diagnostic Receptive and Expressive Assessment of Mandarin-Comprehensive (DREAM-C), which is normed for…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Receptive Language, Expressive Language, Mandarin Chinese
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Liu, Xueman Lucy; Lee, Wendy; Rolfhus, Eric; Hutchings, Teresa; Yao, Liqun; Xie, Jingqiu; Xu, Yaqing; Peng, Yongmei; Villiers, Jill de – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Objective: This study was designed to produce a new parent-report measure, the Diagnostic Receptive Expressive Assessment of Mandarin-Infant Toddler Assessment of Communication and Language (DREAM-IT) in order to provide norms for the developmental skills of children aged 0-36 months in four areas: expressive language, receptive language,…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Infants, Toddlers, Expressive Language
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Wang, Haiyan; Yu, Haopeng – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2023
This paper attempts to investigate the repetition of Relative Clauses (RCs) in Mandarin children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) (aged 4; 5 to 6; 0) and their typically developing (TD) peers. The results of a sentence repetition task indicate that Mandarin children with DLD perform significantly worse than both groups of TD children,…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Phrase Structure, Mandarin Chinese, Language Acquisition
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Hu, Bi Ying; Johnson, Gregory Kirk; Teo, Timothy; Wu, Zhongling – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2020
Research on the screen time of young children and its relationship to their cognitive and social development is controversial. Based on a stratified, random sample of 579 five-year-old children in Guangdong, China, this study explores the relationship between the screen time of Chinese children and their cognitive and social development.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Cognitive Development, Social Development, Foreign Countries
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Guan, Yao; Farrar, M. Jeffrey – First Language, 2016
Metalinguistic awareness is the ability to identify, reflect upon, and manipulate linguistic units. It plays a critical role in reading development. The present study investigated Chinese- and English-speaking preschoolers' metalinguistic awareness development and the role of cognitive and linguistic abilities in its development. Forty-two…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Preschool Children, Chinese, English
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Delcenserie, Audrey; Genesee, Fred; Gauthier, Karine – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
We assessed the language, cognitive, and socioemotional abilities of 27 internationally adopted children from China, adopted by French-speaking parents, 12 of whom had been assessed previously by Gauthier and Genesee. The children were on average 7 years, 10 months old and were matched to nonadopted monolingual French-speaking children on age,…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Adoption, Foreign Countries, Speech Communication