Picture naming task - Maltese version

Abstract

The Maltese and English versions of the Picture Naming Task (Gatt, 2011) address children’s ability to name a series of photographic images, presented in a PowerPoint presentation, by retrieving the respective phonological representations from memory. Each language version elicits the production of 40 concrete nouns. Of these, 40% are common to both language tasks, providing information on children’s retrieval and production of translation equivalents.

References:

Gatt, D., Baldacchino, R., & Dodd, B. (2020). Which measure of socioeconomic status best predicts bilingual lexical abilities and how? A focus on 4-year-olds exposed to two majority languages. Journal of Child Language. doi:10.1017/S0305000919000886.

Gatt, D. & Dodd, B. (2020). The onset of sequential bilingualism? An investigation of preschoolers’ lexical learning in two majority languages. International Journal of Bilingualism, 24(2), 222-245.