CLINICAL EVALUATION OF LANGUAGE FUNDAMENTALS 2 (CELF-2)
(Preschool)
This test measures receptive and expressive language development in the areas of: word meaning
(semantics), word and sentence structure (morphology and syntax).
Subtest
Scaled / Standard
Score
Percentile Rank
Language
Areas
Sentence Structure: To evaluate the child’s
ability to interpret spoken sentences of
increasing length and complexity.
Core
Languagereceptive
Word Structure: To evaluate the child’s
ability to apply word structure rules.
Core
Languageexpressive
Expressive Vocabulary: To evaluate the
child’s ability to label illustrations of people,
objects, and actions.
Core
Languageexpressive
Concepts and Following Directions: To
evaluate the child’s ability to interpret
spoken directions of increasing length and
complexity.
Receptive/
language
content
Recalling Sentences: To evaluate the
child’s ability to listen to spoken sentences of
increasing length and complexity and to
repeat them verbatim.
Expressive/
Language
structure
Basic Concepts: To evaluate the child’s
knowledge of concepts of dimension/size,
direction/location/position, number/quantity,
and equality.
Receptive/
language
content
Word Classes Receptive: To evaluate the
child’s ability to perceive relationships
between words that are related by semantic
class features.
Receptive
Word Classes Expressive: To express those
relationships that are found in Word Classes
Receptive.
Word Classes: Total
Expressive
Total Core Language Score
Receptive Language
Expressive Language
Language Content
Language Structure
Discussion: The Core Language score is the measure of general language ability that quantifies a student’s overall
language performance and is used to make decisions about presence or absence of a language disorder.