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KMID : 1036820160210030451
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Communication Sciences & Disorders
2016 Volume.21 No. 3 p.451 ~ p.461
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Context-Dependent Metaphor Comprehension Ability of School-Aged Children with Borderline Intellectual Functioning
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Kwak Yun-Ji
Hwang Min-A
Jeong Mi-Ran
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Abstract
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Objectives: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the metaphor comprehension ability of school-aged children with borderline intellectual functioning (BIF) and typically developing (TD) children.
Methods: Children with BIF who were language-age 7 to 8 (N=10) and TD children with matched language age (N=10) participated in this study. To examine their metaphor comprehension ability depending on contextual condition, two tasks were performed, based on the following conditions: a non-contextual condition presenting only metaphorical sentences (18 items) and a contextual condition presenting contexts in the form of a short conversation (18 items). The children were instructed to choose an answer to each question among three example choices (correct interpretation choice, literal error choice including vehicle, and irrelevant choice).
Results: A two-way mixed ANOVA of group (2)×context condition (2) revealed statistically significant main effects for group and context condition. There was also a significant interaction effect.
Conclusion: The children with BIF had more difficulty comprehending metaphor as compared with the TD children. These results imply that the children with BIF were less capable of inferring the meaning of metaphor than TD children. In a conversational linguistic context, both children with BIF and TD performed better than in a non-contextual condition. The implications and limitations of the study were discussed based on these results.
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KEYWORD
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Borderline intellectual functioning, Metaphor, Context
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