Exploring Spanish Writing Abilities of Children with Developmental Language Disorder in expository texts

Introduction: Numerous studies have shown that children with developmental language disorder (DLD), in addition to oral language difficulties, exhibit impaired writing abilities. Their texts contain problems in grammar, organization, cohesion, and length of written output. However, most of these stu...

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Autores: Balboa Castells, Raquel, Ahufinger Sanclemente, Nadia, Sanz-Torrent, Mònica, Andreu Barrachina, Llorenç
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Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Palabra clave:Gramàtica
Anglès
Trastorns del llenguatge
Grammar
English language
Language disorders
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spelling Exploring Spanish Writing Abilities of Children with Developmental Language Disorder in expository textsBalboa Castells, RaquelAhufinger Sanclemente, NadiaSanz-Torrent, MònicaAndreu Barrachina, LlorençGramàticaAnglèsTrastorns del llenguatgeGrammarEnglish languageLanguage disordersIntroduction: Numerous studies have shown that children with developmental language disorder (DLD), in addition to oral language difficulties, exhibit impaired writing abilities. Their texts contain problems in grammar, organization, cohesion, and length of written output. However, most of these studies have been conducted with English speakers. English is characterized by complex phonological structure, opaque orthography, poor morphology and strict word order. The aim of this research is to observe the writing abilities of children with DLD in a language with simple phonological structure, transparent orthography, rich morphology and flexible word order like Spanish in the production of expository texts. Methods: Twenty-six children with DLD (mean age in months = 128.85) and 26 age-and sex-matched typically developing (TD) children (mean age in months = 124.61) wrote an expository text about their favorite animal. Results: In order to analyze how the two groups plan and encode written texts, we looked at word frequency and sentence structure, grammatical complexity and lexical density, and omissions and errors. Compared to the TD group, the children with DLD omitted more content words; made more errors with functional words, verb conjugation and inflectional morphemes, and made a large number of spelling errors. Moreover, they wrote fewer words, fewer sentences, and less structurally and lexically complex texts. Discussion: These results show that children with DLD who speak a transparent orthography language such as Spanish also have difficulties in most language areas when producing written texts. Our findings should be considered when planning and designing interventions.Frontiers Media2025202520242025info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion12 p.application/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/223341http://hdl.handle.net/2445/223341Articles publicats en revistes (Cognició, Desenvolupament i Psicologia de l'Educació)reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésReproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024. 1360245Frontiers in Psychology, 2024, vol. 15, 1360245https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1360245cc-by (c) Balboa Castells, Raquel et al., 2024http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:2445/2233412026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Exploring Spanish Writing Abilities of Children with Developmental Language Disorder in expository texts
title Exploring Spanish Writing Abilities of Children with Developmental Language Disorder in expository texts
spellingShingle Exploring Spanish Writing Abilities of Children with Developmental Language Disorder in expository texts
Balboa Castells, Raquel
Gramàtica
Anglès
Trastorns del llenguatge
Grammar
English language
Language disorders
title_short Exploring Spanish Writing Abilities of Children with Developmental Language Disorder in expository texts
title_full Exploring Spanish Writing Abilities of Children with Developmental Language Disorder in expository texts
title_fullStr Exploring Spanish Writing Abilities of Children with Developmental Language Disorder in expository texts
title_full_unstemmed Exploring Spanish Writing Abilities of Children with Developmental Language Disorder in expository texts
title_sort Exploring Spanish Writing Abilities of Children with Developmental Language Disorder in expository texts
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Balboa Castells, Raquel
Ahufinger Sanclemente, Nadia
Sanz-Torrent, Mònica
Andreu Barrachina, Llorenç
author Balboa Castells, Raquel
author_facet Balboa Castells, Raquel
Ahufinger Sanclemente, Nadia
Sanz-Torrent, Mònica
Andreu Barrachina, Llorenç
author_role author
author2 Ahufinger Sanclemente, Nadia
Sanz-Torrent, Mònica
Andreu Barrachina, Llorenç
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author
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Gramàtica
Anglès
Trastorns del llenguatge
Grammar
English language
Language disorders
topic Gramàtica
Anglès
Trastorns del llenguatge
Grammar
English language
Language disorders
description Introduction: Numerous studies have shown that children with developmental language disorder (DLD), in addition to oral language difficulties, exhibit impaired writing abilities. Their texts contain problems in grammar, organization, cohesion, and length of written output. However, most of these studies have been conducted with English speakers. English is characterized by complex phonological structure, opaque orthography, poor morphology and strict word order. The aim of this research is to observe the writing abilities of children with DLD in a language with simple phonological structure, transparent orthography, rich morphology and flexible word order like Spanish in the production of expository texts. Methods: Twenty-six children with DLD (mean age in months = 128.85) and 26 age-and sex-matched typically developing (TD) children (mean age in months = 124.61) wrote an expository text about their favorite animal. Results: In order to analyze how the two groups plan and encode written texts, we looked at word frequency and sentence structure, grammatical complexity and lexical density, and omissions and errors. Compared to the TD group, the children with DLD omitted more content words; made more errors with functional words, verb conjugation and inflectional morphemes, and made a large number of spelling errors. Moreover, they wrote fewer words, fewer sentences, and less structurally and lexically complex texts. Discussion: These results show that children with DLD who speak a transparent orthography language such as Spanish also have difficulties in most language areas when producing written texts. Our findings should be considered when planning and designing interventions.
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