Phonetic verbal fluency in Multilingual speakers
| dc.contributor.author | Banjo, Hillary Pelumi | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Ferreira-Correia, Aline | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-07-24T19:22:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-07-24T19:22:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.department | Department of Social Work | |
| dc.department | Department of Psychology | |
| dc.description | A Research Report Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Social and Psychological Research (PSYC7022A) in the Department of Psychology, School of Human and Community Development, Faculty of Humanities, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in 2023. | |
| dc.description.abstract | Verbal fluency is a core neuropsychological function that assess a person's ability to locate precise information under specific search criteria. This study aimed to investigate the differences in performance of multilingual individuals who report English as their first language and individuals who report other languages as their first language on a phonemic fluency test assessed by the COWAT FAS. Whilst also investigating the influence of the covariates (age, gender, years of formal education, and code switching) on the performance of these individuals. To address these aims a sample of 60 participants were recruited through purposive and snowballing sampling. The results of the study revealed a statistically non-significant difference in the performance between multilingual individuals who report English as their first language and individuals who report other languages as their first language as well as a statistically non-significant (p >.05) difference in performance between males and females. The Spearman rho correlation revealed a significant correlation (p < .05) between the age of participants and their COWAT FAS total score, while a non-significant correlation was observed between the code switching of participants and their COWAT FAS total score. Similarly, the Pearson product correlation revealed a significant positive correlation between the years of formal education of participants and the COWAT FAS total score. Overall, this study provides fresh insight into the performance of multilinguals in South Africa as well as demographic factors that influence performance on this test which creates a foundation for more studies to be conducted on this topic. | |
| dc.description.submitter | MM2024 | |
| dc.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Banjo, Hillary Pelumi. (2023). Phonetic verbal fluency in Multilingual speakers. [Master's dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg]. WIReDSpace. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/39843 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10539/39843 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg | |
| dc.rights | ©2023 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. | |
| dc.rights.holder | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg | |
| dc.school | School of Human and Community Development | |
| dc.subject | Verbal fluency | |
| dc.subject | Verbal fluency tasks | |
| dc.subject | Phonemic fluency | |
| dc.subject | Controlled Oral Word Association Test FAS (COWAT) | |
| dc.subject | Multilingualism | |
| dc.subject | Bilingualism | |
| dc.subject | UCTD | |
| dc.subject.other | SDG-4: Quality education | |
| dc.title | Phonetic verbal fluency in Multilingual speakers | |
| dc.type | Dissertation |