Assessing Multilingual Children

Disentangling Bilingualism from Language Impairment
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78309-312-0
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 731 g

Second language learners often produce language forms resembling those of children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). At present, professionals working in language assessment and education have only limited diagnostic instruments to distinguish language impaired migrant children from those who will eventually catch up with their monolingual peers. This book presents a comprehensive set of tools for assessing the linguistic abilities of bilingual children. It aims to disentangle effects of bilingualism from those of SLI, making use of both models of bilingualism and models of language impairment. The book’s methods-oriented focus will make it an essential handbook for practitioners who look for measures which could be adapted to a variety of languages in diverse communities, as well as academic researchers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Armon-Lotem, Sharon

De Jong, Jan

Meir, Natalia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Sharon Armon-Lotem and Jan de Jong: Introduction

Syntax and its Interfaces

1. Jan de Jong: Elicitation Task for Subject Verb Agreement

2. Esther Ruigendijk: Contrastive Elicitation Task for Testing Case Marking

3. Philippe Prévost: Elicited Production of Object Clitics

4. Petra Schulz: Comprehension of Exhaustive wh-questions

5. Theodoros Marinis and Sharon Armon-Lotem: Sentence Repetition

Phonological and Lexical Processing

6. Shula Chiat: Nonword Repetition

7. Daniela Gatt, Ciara O’Toole and Ewa Haman: Using Parental Report to Assess Early Lexical Production in Children Exposed to More than one Language

8. Ewa Haman, Magdalena Luniewska and Barbara Pomiechowska: Designing Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks (CLTs) for Bilingual Preschool Children

Beyond Modality

9. Natalia Gagarina, Daleen Klop, Sari Kunnari, Koula Tantele, Taina Välimaa, Ingrida Balciuniene, Ute Bohnacker and Joel Walters: Assessment of Narrative Abilities in Bilingual Children

10. Kristine Jensen de Lopéz and Anne E. Baker: Executive Functions in the Assessment of Bilingual Children with Language Impairment

From Theory to Practice

11. Laurice Tuller: Clinical Use of Parental Questionnaires in Multilingual Contexts

12. Elin Thordardottir: Proposed Diagnostic Procedures for Use in Bilingual and Cross-Linguistic Contexts

Über Autor(innen)

Meir, Natalia
Natalia Meir is currently working on her PhD in the Department of English Literature and Linguistics at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

De Jong, Jan
John H.A.L. de Jong is Professor Emeritus of Language Testing at VU University Amsterdam and has run a consultancy business, Language Testing Services, since 2000. He taught French for seven years before starting his career in language testing in 1977 at CITO. With Language Testing Services, he has provided consultancy in language testing to national ministries of education, the World Bank, the OECD, the Council of Europe and the European Union. During his years at Pearson (2006–2016) he developed the Pearson Test of English Academic and the Global Scale of English and led Frameworks development for PISA 2015, 2018 and PISA for Development.

Armon-Lotem, Sharon
Sharon Armon-Lotem is Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature and Linguistics and a member of The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar Ilan University, Israel.

Sharon Armon-Lotem is Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature and Linguistics and a member of The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar Ilan University, Israel.

Jan de Jong is Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is a member of the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication.

Natalia Meir is currently working on her PhD in the Department of English Literature and Linguistics at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.