Process-Oriented Measurement of Listening Component Skills (Poster 34)

• In Event: Friday Poster Session 9:35 am
  In Poster Session: Division D Poster Session 2

Abstract

For accurate listening comprehension, listening comprehension component processes must be efficient (accurate and fast). We introduce a test battery for the assessment of the efficiency of six listening component processes on the word and sentence level in elementary school children (phonetic-phonological analysis, word recognition, retrieval of meaning, syntactic parsing, semantic integration, and local coherence), using both response accuracy and latency. Data from 867 elementary school children point to factorial validity (subscales can be separated), and convergent validity (correlations with grade and mother tongue). Correlations with corresponding reading processes were moderate, pointing to modality specificity of the respective processes. Construct representation analysis with one task (phonetic-phonological analysis) proved test scores to be strongly predicted by linguistic item features, further evidencing validity.

Authors

• Johannes Naumann, University of Wuppertal

• Tobias Richter, University of Würzburg

• Julia Schindler, Freie Universität Berlin

• Maj-Britt Haffmanns, University of Kassel

• Patrick Dahdah, University of Wuppertal