The purpose of this study was to examine what type of coordinate words were preferred respectively by children with language delayed children and normal children, how much they understood them and to what extent they utilized them. It's basically mean...
The purpose of this study was to examine what type of coordinate words were preferred respectively by children with language delayed children and normal children, how much they understood them and to what extent they utilized them. It's basically meant to pave the way for developing more successful verbal-therapy programs for children with language delayed. The subjects in this study were 20 children at the age of 5 and 6 from Ulsan, who included 10 with language delayed children and 10 without any retardation. After the collected data were analyzed, the following findings were obtained: First, both groups had a tendency to prefer the positive pole vocabulary. As a result of investigating whether or not there were any differences between the groups in preference for the positive pole vocabulary and the negative pole vocabulary, no gap existed between them, and both groups favored the positive pole vocabulary. Second, as for differences between the two groups in the positive pole vocabulary, 2the normal group reacted to those words more than the language~delayed group. Both groups grasped the positive pole vocabulary. First, and the second most speedily understood one was reverse words, followed by converse words and measure antonyms. Third, the normal group was able to utilize more coordinate words(more than 80%) than the language-delayed group. The latter also used many vocabularies (40%-79%) to express what they had in mind. The most largely used coordinate words in the normal group were reverse words, followed by converse words and measure antonyms. In the case of the language-delayed group, reverse words was most common as well, followed by converse words and measure antonyms. This indicated that there was no qualitative gap between the two groups in coordinate acquisition, though the amount of acquired words was different. Concerning semantic acquisition, both groups had a similar preference for coordinate words, but the children with language-delayed lagged behind in understanding and utilizing them. The former group was particularly outperformed by the latter in terms of vocabulary utilization.