Research Symposium

BIO

I am from Jacksonville, Florida. My goal is to become a Speech Language Pathologist. I am very interested in research within my field, specifically looking at people from different cultural backgrounds. As I feel that not enough research has been done on that within my field.

An Analysis of Microstructure Features in Emergent Spanish-English Multilingual Learners

Abstract

This study’s purpose was to analyze the microstructure features of English Oral Narratives produced by Spanish-English Emergent Multilinguals in K-2. This was done through conducting narrative retells along with standardized assessments with 15 K-2 students to evaluate the microstructure features. The microstructure features coded for included MLU, Number of Different Words (NDW), Number of Total Words (NTW), Subordinate Index, Errors, and Morphological Diversity Index. When assessing the microstructure features of the oral narrative retell, it appears that students in kindergarten students produced less morphologically complex narratives while second grade students produced more lexically, morphologically, and syntactically diverse oral narrative retells as suggest the MLUw, NDW, and SI.

Keywords: Multilingual speakers, Speech Pathology, microstructure components