Pesco Diane, O'Neill Daniela K
Department of Education, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jun 20;14:1169775. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1169775. eCollection 2023.
The Language Use Inventory (LUI) is a parent-report measure of the pragmatic functions of young children's language, standardized and norm-referenced in English (Canada) for children aged 18-47 months. The unique focus of the LUI, along with its appeal to parents, reliability and validity, and usefulness in both research and clinical contexts has prompted research teams globally to translate and adapt it to other languages. In this review, we describe the original LUI's key features and report on processes used by seven different research teams to translate and adapt it to Arabic, French, Italian, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, and Portuguese. We also review data from the studies of the seven translated versions, which indicate that all the LUI versions were reliable and sensitive to developmental changes. The review demonstrates that the LUI, informed by a social-cognitive and functional approach to language development, captures growth in children's language use across a range of linguistic and cultural contexts, and as such, can serve as a valuable tool for clinical and research purposes.
语言使用量表（LUI）是一种由家长报告的衡量幼儿语言语用功能的工具，它以英语（加拿大）为标准，适用于18至47个月大的儿童，并以常模为参照。LUI的独特关注点，以及它对家长的吸引力、可靠性和有效性，以及在研究和临床环境中的实用性，促使全球的研究团队对其进行翻译并改编成其他语言。在这篇综述中，我们描述了原始LUI的关键特征，并报告了七个不同研究团队将其翻译成阿拉伯语、法语、意大利语、普通话、挪威语、波兰语和葡萄牙语并进行改编所采用的过程。我们还回顾了这七个翻译版本的研究数据，这些数据表明所有LUI版本都可靠且对发育变化敏感。该综述表明，LUI以社会认知和功能主义的语言发展方法为依据，能够在一系列语言和文化背景下捕捉儿童语言使用的发展情况，因此可以作为临床和研究目的的宝贵工具。
