Narrative Comprehension and Language Skills in Chilean Children with Specific Language Impairment

Insights from real-time comprehension of Spanish verbal tense in children with developmental language disorder: An eye-tracking study

“…The findings of this study introduce more empirical evidence from a relatively recent perspective which indicates the possibility of a less atypical comprehension of language by Spanish-speaking children with DLD than what is generally considered (Andreu et al, 2011;Andreu et al, 2016;Andreu et al, 2013;Christou et al, 2020;Christou et al, 2021). However, it is essential to emphasize the existence of a series of studies, also recent, in which opposite results are presented (Coloma et al, 2013;Coloma & Pavez, 2017). In these studies, Coloma and colleagues (2013) studied the comprehension of children with DLD through a narrative discourse protocol (Pavez et al, 2008) that evaluates the natural role of spoken language (complex sentences in narrative style, absence of visual cues, and offline methodology).…”

“…Interestingly, studies demonstrating more preserved comprehension capacity in children with DLD (Andreu et al, 2011(Andreu et al, , 2013(Andreu et al, , 2016Christou et al, 2020Christou et al, , 2021 are based on simpler structures of language, on eye-tracking methodology which does not require linguistic production to indicate the level of comprehension, and language is always supported by visual scenes. However, studies that demonstrate a more atypical comprehension (Coloma et al, 2013;Coloma & Pavez, 2017) do not have visual support, the comprehension is evidenced through verbal responses of the children with DLD, and the characteristics of the studied language are much closer to the real-world circumstances of day-to-day linguistic communication.…”

Real‐time comprehension of Spanish prepositions and prepositional locutions in bilingual children with developmental language disorder: A study based on eye‐movement evidence

“…2013; Coloma et al . 2017, Coloma and Pavez 2017). Future studies would have to evaluate the comprehension of children with DLD in circumstances that integrate elements of these two lines of research: the online methodology that adequately captures the cognitive processes of DLD linguistic comprehension, and the evaluation of more complex sentence structures closer to the linguistic reality surrounding children with DLD.…”

“…However, it is relevant to highlight that our findings refer to the comprehension of Spanish grammatical morphemes within simple structures, using an online technology, and that assessment of more complex structures using the same technology is still required. Research on the offline comprehension of more complex structures by children with DLD in Spanish has shown significant differences between these children and a control group (Coloma et al 2013;Pavez 2017). Future studies would have to evaluate the comprehension of children with DLD in circumstances that integrate elements of these two lines of research: the online methodology that adequately captures the cognitive processes of DLD linguistic comprehension, and the evaluation of more complex sentence structures closer to the linguistic reality surrounding children with DLD.…”

Intervention in the Cohesion of Narrative Discourse in Pupils with Developmental Language Disorder

“…It must be considered that this is a group that struggles to codify and recover the central elements of a narrative, and that this heightens the difficulty of the story retelling task considerably. What is more, this idea is strongly linked to these pupils' notable syntactic and lexical limitations, which also negatively affect their ability to use cohesion mechanisms and produce and understand narratives (Coloma & Pavez, 2020). Infrequent use of these links will affect the production of cohesive discourse and, ultimately, lead to less discursive unity.…”