Översättning och utvärdering av det bildbaserade förståelsetestet TACL-3 - en pilotstudie

Abstract

Test for Auditory Comprehension of Language -3 is an American picturebased test developed to examine children’s auditory comprehension of language. The aim of the study was to create a translation and to examine if the test would contribute to the information about a child´s language comprehension received by similar tests that are used today. In the present study the test items were translated into Swedish. The translation was evaluated with 32 children in three different age groups at a school in central Gothenburg. A linguistic examination of the translation and a list of the grammatical structures that are tested were made. The younger participants’ scores were somewhat higher than those of the Americans. There was a weak trend towards increasing level of difficulty in test items. It was possible to create a functional translation of the TACL-3 without changing the original version too much.