Gisela Szagun (Book order)

Gisela Szagun Book order

January 1, 1942

Gisela Szagun is a German psychologist and author whose work centers on child language development. As an Emerita Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Oldenburg, she has delved deeply into the intricacies of how children acquire the ability to communicate. Her research offers valuable insights into the formative years of language acquisition. Her writings are grounded in extensive psychological knowledge, exploring the fundamental mechanisms behind language development.

German communicative development inventory

An Adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory for Toddlers

139 pages
5 hours of reading

This research presents a German adaptation of the American MacArthur-Bates Commmunicative Inventory (CDI) for toddlers, with the addition of a detailed inflectional morphology scale. The name of the instrument is FRAKIS (Fragebogen zur frühkindlichen Sprachentwicklung). The research presents the first norm data of early language development for German-speaking children. Results of the study confirm the enormous variability in early language development found in other languages for German. There was also a strong relation between lexical and grammatical development, including between specific lexical and grammatical areas. The instrument FRAKIS is an excellent tool for assessing language level in young children, be it for research purposes or in clinical settings.