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Conference Paper: Assessing semantic knowledge in Cantonese-speaking Adolescents
Title | Assessing semantic knowledge in Cantonese-speaking Adolescents Assessing Vocabulary Skills in Cantonese-Speaking Adolescents |
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Issue Date | 2015 |
Publisher | The Chinese University of Hong Kong . |
Citation | The Academic Symposium on Adolescent Mental Health and Disorders,The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 28–29 October 2015. In Program booklet, p. 32 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Purpose: This study investigated the feasibility of a pilot version of Vocabulary Assessment for Cantonese- speaking Adolescents (VACA) in evaluating the vocabulary ability of Cantonese-speaking adolescents with and without language impairment (LI) in Hong Kong.
Method: A list of 300 vocabularies was located from local textbooks, dictionaries, and multimedia resources. The list was reduced to 91 vocabularies according to secondary school teachers’ judgment. Three receptive tasks, two expressive tasks, and a vocabulary-learning strategy task were devised to examine five domains: (1) academic words, (2) idioms, (3) slangs, (4) homophones, and (5) lexical inferencing strategies. Sixty Cantonese-speaking adolescents with normal language (NL) and 17
with LI (aged 12;01–17;06) were tested on VACA.
Results: The composite scores increased significantly with grade level in the NL group. The LI group performed significantly weaker than their matched peers in the NL group in all five domains and the composite scores.
Conclusion: The results of this study demonstrated a continual growth of semantic
knowledge during adolescence and VACA can be a feasible assessment tool for evaluating the vocabulary knowledge of Cantonese-speaking adolescents in Hong Kong. |
Description | Report no. 25 The symposium is jointly organized by the Department of Health Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/240706 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | To, KS | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-11T07:56:37Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-11T07:56:37Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The Academic Symposium on Adolescent Mental Health and Disorders,The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 28–29 October 2015. In Program booklet, p. 32 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/240706 | - |
dc.description | Report no. 25 | - |
dc.description | The symposium is jointly organized by the Department of Health Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and The Chinese University of Hong Kong | - |
dc.description.abstract | Purpose: This study investigated the feasibility of a pilot version of Vocabulary Assessment for Cantonese- speaking Adolescents (VACA) in evaluating the vocabulary ability of Cantonese-speaking adolescents with and without language impairment (LI) in Hong Kong. Method: A list of 300 vocabularies was located from local textbooks, dictionaries, and multimedia resources. The list was reduced to 91 vocabularies according to secondary school teachers’ judgment. Three receptive tasks, two expressive tasks, and a vocabulary-learning strategy task were devised to examine five domains: (1) academic words, (2) idioms, (3) slangs, (4) homophones, and (5) lexical inferencing strategies. Sixty Cantonese-speaking adolescents with normal language (NL) and 17 with LI (aged 12;01–17;06) were tested on VACA. Results: The composite scores increased significantly with grade level in the NL group. The LI group performed significantly weaker than their matched peers in the NL group in all five domains and the composite scores. Conclusion: The results of this study demonstrated a continual growth of semantic knowledge during adolescence and VACA can be a feasible assessment tool for evaluating the vocabulary knowledge of Cantonese-speaking adolescents in Hong Kong. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | The Chinese University of Hong Kong . | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Academic Symposium on Adolescent Mental Health and Disorders | - |
dc.title | Assessing semantic knowledge in Cantonese-speaking Adolescents | - |
dc.title | Assessing Vocabulary Skills in Cantonese-Speaking Adolescents | - |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
dc.identifier.email | To, KS: tokitsum@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | To, KS=rp00962 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 250237 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 32 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 32 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Hong Kong | - |