Author(s)

Yanan Li ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Department of Rehabilitation Engineering, Beijing College of Social Administration (Formerly the Ministry of Civil Affairs Management Cadre Institute), Beijing, 102600, China

Corresponding Author

Yanan Li

ABSTRACT

In recent years, some verbal repetition tasks have gained much attention, such as non-word repetition and digit-span. A large number of studies have concluded that these repetition tasks have the ability to differentiate between children with speech and language disorders and typically developing children. Moreover, they are closely related to a variety of language skills, especially vocabulary skills. Many studies have also used a combination of several speech repetition tasks to examine which task has the highest accuracy in diagnosing children with language disorders. However, there is a lack of research on Mandarin Chinese. The aim of this study is to investigate the performance of Mandarin-speaking preschool children, aged 3-6 years, in three repetition tasks: word repetition, nonword repetition, and digit span. The goal is to provide new insights for the screening of Mandarin-speaking children with language disorders.

KEYWORDS

Preschool children, word repetition, nonword repetition, digit span

CITE THIS PAPER

Yanan Li, Research on Speech Repetition Tasks in Mandarin Preschool Children. Applied & Educational Psychology (2023) Vol. 4: 26-30. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/appep.2023.040704.

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