Evoked language diagnosis of grammatical skills

The ESGRAF test is a special language performance test that examines grammatical disorders in children and adolescents and derives therapy and learning goals from it. ESGRAF stands for Evoked Language Diagnosis of Grammatical Skills . The test was developed by Hans-Joachim Motsch , a professor for speech-impaired education who is currently researching and teaching at the University of Cologne and the Düsseldorf Academy - School for Speech Therapy .

ESGRAF

The first version of the test appeared in 1999. The target group was “four to ten year old children with language acquisition disorders who showed recognizable abnormalities in acquiring the grammatical system of their reference language”. The test examined the child's speech behavior using five playful speech stimuli and was to be recorded by video camera and later evaluated. The grammar fields syntax ( relative clause , indirect interrogative clause and temporal clause ), subjective-verb inversion and subject-verb congruence were examined diagnostically . Optionally, the complex syntax ( conditional clause ), the future tense and the subjunctive could also be examined.

Over time, the test was further refined and expanded to include three additional tests, which also included secondary school .

ESGRAF-R

In 2008 the test was reissued. The revised test was now modularized and divided into five basic modules, which could be expanded by up to ten additional modules. Like ESGRAF, the revised test also placed value on a playful survey situation. A total of 120–140 items are queried using a circus tent . This test should also be evaluated using a video recording. The target group was expanded to include four to 16 year olds. The duration of the test itself is 25 minutes, the evaluation time should be around 35 minutes.

Structure of the test

module	Rule / ability
Basic module 1	Subject-verb control rule and verb secondary rule
Extension module 1b	Verb second setting rule (object topicalization)
Extension module 1c	Verb second setting rule (temporal adverb)
Extension module 1d	Verb second setting rule (temporal adverb and verb phrase with participle)
Basic module 2	Verb ending in the subordinate clause
Extension module 2b	Verb ending in the subordinate clause
Extension module 2c	Verb ending in the subordinate clause
Extension module 2d	Verb ending in the subordinate clause (use of written language)
Basic module 3	Case rule (dative in noun phrases)
Extension module 3b	Case rule (accusative in noun phrases)
Extension module 3c	Case rule (accusative in prepositional phrases)
Extension module 3d	Case rule (dative in prepositional questions)
Extension module 3e	Case rule (accusative and dative in noun phrases)
Module 4	Enjoyment security
Module 5	Plural marking

ESGRAF 4-8

In 2016, Prof. Motsch further developed the ESGRAF-R into "ESGRAF 4-8". The test is now standardized and normalized. The ESGRAF-R has been expanded to include subtest 6, which allows the examination of formally more complex and cognitively more demanding structures (5 passive sentences, 8 items for genitive control) in school age (from 7; 0). The grammar test does not have to be carried out with all subtests. Each subtest is standardized and there are separate norms within subtests 1, 4 and 6.

reception

The ESGRAF and the ESGRAF-R are standard tests in pedagogy for the speech-impaired and in speech therapy . Motsch himself described the test in Manfred Grohnfeldt's standard work textbook on speech therapy and speech therapy. Volume 3: Diagnostics, prevention and evaluation as one of the first to overcome the “randomness of free spontaneous speech samples ”.

literature

• Hans-Joachim Motsch: ESGRAF - test manual . Reinhard, Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3-497-01549-8 .
• Hans-Joachim Motsch: ESGRAF-R: Modularized Diagnosis of Grammatical Disorders - Test Manual . Reinhard, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-497-01493-4 .
• Motsch, HJ; Rietz, Chr: ESGRAF 4-8, grammar test for 4- to 8-year-old children - Manua l. Reinhard, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-497-02632-6

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Motsch. (No longer available online.) Düsseldorfer Akademie, archived from the original on September 17, 2009 ; Retrieved June 28, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Hans- Joachim Motsch: ESGRAF-R: Modularized Diagnostics of Grammatical Disorders - Test Manual . Reinhard, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-497-01549-8 , pp. 9 .
3. ↑ Grammatical disorders . In: Manfred Grohnfeldt (Hrsg.): Textbook of Speech Therapy and Speech Therapy Volume 3: Diagnostics, Prevention and Evaluation . Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-17-019923-1 , pp. 170 .