The challenge of cross-cultural assessment - The Test of Ability to Explain for Zulu-speaking Children

Journal of Communication Disorders

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 109-138

  Solarsh, Barbara ^a   Alant, Erna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TEST; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPEECH;

CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; RURAL POPULATION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33644830000     PISSN: 00219924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2005.11.002     Document Type: Article

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