Assessment to measure higher-level language skills
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Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals, Fifth Edition Metalinguistics
CELF-5 Metalinguistics
Assessment to measure higher-level language skillsOverview
Product Details
Resources
- Publication date:
- 2014
- Completion time:
- Approximately 45 minutes for the Total Metalinguistics Score
- Administration:
- Individual
- Age range:
- 9 years – 21 years 11 months
- Qualification level:
- B
A revision of the Test of Language Competence-Expanded, the CELF-5 Metalinguistics assessment includes four tests of higher-level language skills that are embedded in upper-grade curricula and are critical to classroom success. Use it to measure a student’s ability to think about and use language to make inferences, manipulate conversational speech given a context, use words in multiple ways, and use language in a non-literal manner.
Watch "Introducing CELF-5 Metalinguistics" Video
Content & Administration
Administer the four tests individually or as a battery to obtain information about an individual’s language skills in:
- Making Inferences
- Conversation Skills
- Multiple Meanings
- Figurative Language
Features and Benefits
- Ideal for students with subtle language disorders or those on the autism spectrum
- Goes beyond assessment of syntax and semantics to assess student’s language strategies and language flexibility
- Includes several tests that assess the student’s ability to interpret contextual and situational demands of conversation
- Helps you evaluate delays in semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic competence

Examples of stimuli from the Conversation Skills Test
The following resources are available for CELF-5 Metalinguistics.
- CELF-5 Metalinguistics - Test Objectives and Descriptions
- CELF-5-Metalinguistics - Score Report
- CELF-5-Metalinguistics - Progress Report
