Assessing Complex Working Memory in Turkish-Speaking Children: The Listening Span Task Adaptation Into Turkish

2020-07-01
ÜNAL, GÜLTEN
Özge, Duygu
Marinis, Theodoros
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The aim of this study was to adapt the Listening Span Task (Gaulin and Campbell, 1994;Pickering and Gathercole, 2001) into Turkish (LST-T), to administer it to children in order to measure how children of different ages perform on the task and to measure its psychometric properties by providing correlations with other cognitive measures: the Word Span Test that measures phonological WM capacity, the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test that measures both categorization ability and executive WM functions, and the Categorical Free Recall Test that examines both the development of the release from proactive interference pattern and the categorization ability during childhood. The results indicate that the LST-T scores increased in a significant stepwise manner without any gender difference between boys and girls. Measures of convergent validity showed significant correlations with a working memory test: the Word Span Test, and. The results demonstrate that the LST-T is an adequate tool to be used by developmentalists for a variety of purposes, ranging from developmental research to educational and clinical practice to investigate cognitive development of Turkish-speaking children.
General Psychology, Listening span task, Children, Turkish, Adaptation, Validity
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/36239
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
Department of Foreign Language Education, Article

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G. ÜNAL, D. Özge, and T. Marinis, “Assessing Complex Working Memory in Turkish-Speaking Children: The Listening Span Task Adaptation Into Turkish,” FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, pp. 0–0, 2020, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/36239.
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