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Details
Purpose
Measures children's ability to understand and tell stories.
Authors
Ronald B. Gillam, PhD, and Nils. A. Pearson, PhD
Administration Formats
Additional Details
The TNL-2 is a Norm-Referenced Test That Measures Children's Narrative Language Abilities
Narration is an important aspect of spoken language tests, not usually measured by oral language tests, that provides a critical foundation for literacy.
The TNL-2 enables clinicians to assess important aspects of narrative language without having to transcribe children's stories. This saves hours of transcription time and provides a valid and reliable metric of narrative language development. The TNL-2 is a natural complement to other standardized tests that use contrived formats to assess components of oral language, and it is especially useful for diagnosing language-based learning disabilities.
Features and benefits
- Offers a functional assessment of narrative comprehension and narrative production.
- Features alternate comprehension and production tasks so children have the opportunity to profit from adult narrative models.
- Measures a child's ability to comprehend and produce three types of stories: a script, a personal narrative, and a fictional narrative.
- Does not require clinicians to transcribe oral narratives to score.
- Features clear, well-organized norms tables and administration procedures and an easy-to-use record form.
- Offers a fair and equitable assessment of narrative discourse for all children.
What's new in the TNL-2?
- Features a larger and new normative sample based on standardization data collected between 2013 and 2015 representative of the US population.
- Includes a wider age range (ages 4-15 years).
- Revised pictures are more colorful and interesting to children.
- The number of items on the comprehension tasks was increased: There are more inferential items; more items for the youngest, low-functioning examinees; and more items for the oldest, high-functioning examinees.
- The scoring system for the oral narratives is now similar across the three types of stories (script, personal narrative, and fictional narrative).
- Chapters on reliability and validity have been expanded.
