Interpretation and Recall of Proverbs in Three School-age Populations  

Oleh:

Berman, Ruth A. ; Ravid, Dorit

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: First Language (Full Text) vol. 30 no. 2 (May 2010), page 155-173.
Topik: figurative language; Hebrew; language-impaired; proverbs; school-age; socioeconomic status
Fulltext: Vol 30, no (2), page 155–173.pdf (375.41KB)

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The study investigates schoolchildren’s command of proverbs as a facet of figurative language, testing their ability to go beyond the referential content of the linguistic message and their familiarity with established non-literal sayings as indicative of lexical development. The tasks involved (1) interpretation of unfamiliar proverbial sayings that are non-conventionalized in Hebrew – in context-free and contextualized conditions – and (2) recall of established traditional Hebrew proverbs. Participants were 4th- and 8th-graders from three populations: typically developing children of high and low SES backgrounds respectively and a group of high SES language-impaired children. Results show a clear rise in performance with age and schooling on both tasks, with greater success in interpreting novel sayings than in recalling traditional proverbs. The language-impaired group scored lowest on all tasks, with the low SES children doing less well than their high SES peers on interpretation but better on recall.

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