Jelena Kuvač Kraljević
Biographic Data
| ID | 3532286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jelena Kuvač Kraljević |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jelena Kuvač |
| FAMILY NAME | Kraljević |
| SIGNATURE | KRALJEVIĆ J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zagreb |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1452-0851 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Parental Reports on Children’s Language Development
Parental reports have been shown to be an informative, cost-effective, and non-invasive method of assessing children’s early communicative and language development (up to the age of 3 years). However, less is known about their applicability in older preschool children after the age of three. The main aim of this study was to present the validation process of the Slovenian version of the Communicative Development Inventories (CDI-III), which is ba…
Linguistic organisation and coherence in personal narratives of 10-year-old children with developmental language disorder
This study aims to investigate the linguistic organisation and coherence of personal narratives among children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) to provide insight into their communication skills in everyday contexts. A cohort of 10-year-old Croatian-speaking children diagnosed with DLD ( n = 50, M = 10;8) and their gender-matched typically developing peers (TLD; n = 50, M = 10;2) participated in the study. All participants were asked to…
Textbook Materials For The Lower Grades Of Elementary School
Plain language is a concept that spread across Europe half a century ago. It refers to communication based on utterances and structure from which listeners and readers can easily extract and understand necessary information. This study presents the concept of plain language in the context of early education through the analysis of written materials to which pupils attending lower-grade elementary school are exposed. The aim of this study is to an…
Main Concepts in the Spoken Discourse of Persons with Aphasia
Individuals produce discourse for various purposes as part of their daily functioning. Therefore, the ability to form a discourse should be one of the main goals of functional speech-language therapy for persons with aphasia (PwA). In addition to assessing the language skills required to form a discourse, it is important to analyse how PwA form general ideas that need to be narrated. This study had two specific aims: (1) to investigate the abilit…
Referential choice in stories with characters of one or different genders
During narration, speakers constantly choose appropriate referential forms (nominals or pronominals). Children may engage in this reference marking differently than adults. Discourse- or listener-oriented approaches make different predictions about referential behaviour in cognitively demanding situations: the first predicts a higher number of nominals; the second, a higher number of pronominals. The current study explores referential forms chose…
Written narratives of adolescents with developmental language disorder compared with typically developing adolescents and adults
Children who struggle with acquisition of oral language are likely to become less proficient writers later on. The current study aimed to compare written texts of adolescents with developmental language disorder (DLD) and their typically developing (TD) peers in terms of length, content, cohesion, coherence and errors. Additionally, texts of TD adolescents were compared with the texts of TD adults. Accordingly, three participant groups were inclu…
Phonological Awareness and Letter Knowledge
In this paper, the relationship between phonological awareness and letter knowledgeand their inherent structures in the period of early literacy are examined. In this crosssectionalstudy involving 746 children, factor analysis was performed one year beforechildren began formal education, in order to define the latent variables that underliemanifest variables of phonological awareness and letter knowledge in Croatian, alanguage with transparent or…
The Croatian adaptation of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives
This paper presents the Croatian version of the Multilingual Assessment tool for Narratives (MAIN), outlines its development and describes the research that has used it to assess narrative skills in monolingual and bilingual speakers. The Croatian version of MAIN has so far been used in three research projects and results have been presented in five peer-reviewed articles (published or in press) covering a total of 175 children in the age range f…
How do 5-year-olds understand questions? Differences in languages across Europe
The comprehension of constituent questions is an important topic for language acquisition research and for applications in the diagnosis of language impairment. This article presents the results of a study investigating the comprehension of different types of questions by 5-year-old, typically developing children across 19 European countries, 18 different languages, and 7 language (sub-)families. The study investigated the effects of two factors …
Literacy predictors and early reading and spelling skills as a factor of orthography
The majority view of reading development maintains the importance of specific cognitive and linguistic abilities, e.g. phonological awareness (PA) and vocabulary and verbal working memory (VWM). Another factor in attaining literacy may be the language of exposure, e.g. whether it has a transparent or a deep orthography. This study examines the interaction between known predictors for literacy development and the orthography. It focuses on early l…
Main Concepts in the Spoken Discourse of Persons with Aphasia
Individuals produce discourse for various purposes as part of their daily functioning. Therefore, the ability to form a discourse should be one of the main goals of functional speech-language therapy for persons with aphasia (PwA). In addition to assessing the language skills required to form a discourse, it is important to analyse how PwA form general ideas that need to be narrated. This study had two specific aims: (1) to investigate the abilit…
Literacy predictors and early reading and spelling skills as a factor of orthography
The majority view of reading development maintains the importance of specific cognitive and linguistic abilities, e.g. phonological awareness (PA) and vocabulary and verbal working memory (VWM). Another factor in attaining literacy may be the language of exposure, e.g. whether it has a transparent or a deep orthography. This study examines the interaction between known predictors for literacy development and the orthography. It focuses on early l…
How do 5-year-olds understand questions? Differences in languages across Europe
The comprehension of constituent questions is an important topic for language acquisition research and for applications in the diagnosis of language impairment. This article presents the results of a study investigating the comprehension of different types of questions by 5-year-old, typically developing children across 19 European countries, 18 different languages, and 7 language (sub-)families. The study investigated the effects of two factors …
Phonological Awareness and Letter Knowledge
In this paper, the relationship between phonological awareness and letter knowledgeand their inherent structures in the period of early literacy are examined. In this crosssectionalstudy involving 746 children, factor analysis was performed one year beforechildren began formal education, in order to define the latent variables that underliemanifest variables of phonological awareness and letter knowledge in Croatian, alanguage with transparent or…
The Croatian adaptation of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives
This paper presents the Croatian version of the Multilingual Assessment tool for Narratives (MAIN), outlines its development and describes the research that has used it to assess narrative skills in monolingual and bilingual speakers. The Croatian version of MAIN has so far been used in three research projects and results have been presented in five peer-reviewed articles (published or in press) covering a total of 175 children in the age range f…
Referential choice in stories with characters of one or different genders
During narration, speakers constantly choose appropriate referential forms (nominals or pronominals). Children may engage in this reference marking differently than adults. Discourse- or listener-oriented approaches make different predictions about referential behaviour in cognitively demanding situations: the first predicts a higher number of nominals; the second, a higher number of pronominals. The current study explores referential forms chose…
Written narratives of adolescents with developmental language disorder compared with typically developing adolescents and adults
Children who struggle with acquisition of oral language are likely to become less proficient writers later on. The current study aimed to compare written texts of adolescents with developmental language disorder (DLD) and their typically developing (TD) peers in terms of length, content, cohesion, coherence and errors. Additionally, texts of TD adolescents were compared with the texts of TD adults. Accordingly, three participant groups were inclu…
Textbook Materials For The Lower Grades Of Elementary School
Plain language is a concept that spread across Europe half a century ago. It refers to communication based on utterances and structure from which listeners and readers can easily extract and understand necessary information. This study presents the concept of plain language in the context of early education through the analysis of written materials to which pupils attending lower-grade elementary school are exposed. The aim of this study is to an…
Main Concepts in the Spoken Discourse of Persons with Aphasia
Individuals produce discourse for various purposes as part of their daily functioning. Therefore, the ability to form a discourse should be one of the main goals of functional speech-language therapy for persons with aphasia (PwA). In addition to assessing the language skills required to form a discourse, it is important to analyse how PwA form general ideas that need to be narrated. This study had two specific aims: (1) to investigate the abilit…
Linguistic organisation and coherence in personal narratives of 10-year-old children with developmental language disorder
This study aims to investigate the linguistic organisation and coherence of personal narratives among children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) to provide insight into their communication skills in everyday contexts. A cohort of 10-year-old Croatian-speaking children diagnosed with DLD ( n = 50, M = 10;8) and their gender-matched typically developing peers (TLD; n = 50, M = 10;2) participated in the study. All participants were asked to…
Parental Reports on Children’s Language Development
Parental reports have been shown to be an informative, cost-effective, and non-invasive method of assessing children’s early communicative and language development (up to the age of 3 years). However, less is known about their applicability in older preschool children after the age of three. The main aim of this study was to present the validation process of the Slovenian version of the Communicative Development Inventories (CDI-III), which is ba…
Linguistics (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Language Development and Disorders (7 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (5 works) · Language development (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Comprehension (3 works) · Croatian (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)