Sentence Repetition Tasks to Detect and Prevent Language Difficulties: A Scoping Review

Sentence repetition tasks (SRTs) have been widely used in language development research for decades. In recent years, there has increasing interest studying performance SRTs as a clinical marker impairment. What are the characteristics of SRTs? For what purposes used? To extent they with young children, different languages, and populations? order to answer these other questions, we conducted scoping review. Peer reviewed studies published indexed scientific journals (2010–2021) were analyzed. A search databases yielded 258 studies. Research languages than English or Spanish, adult samples, dissertations, case studies, artificial models, theoretical publications excluded. After this exclusion, 203 Our results show that most using SRT monolingual speakers older 5 years age; bilingual participants mostly since 2016; several non-typical populations. suggests reliable tool identifying difficulties specifically suitable detecting developmental disorder.