Issues in the Assessment of Bilinguals /

With growing mass migration across the globe, researchers, practitioners, educators and policy makers are increasingly faced with rising numbers of multilingual children and adults. This volume raises key issues surrounding the evaluation of language abilities and proficiency in multilingual speaker...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Abugov, Netta (Contribuidor), Armon-Lotem, Sharon (Contribuidor), Arozena, Eli (Contribuidor), Burns, Rebecca (Contribuidor), Caldas, Stephen J. (Contribuidor), Cenoz, Jasone (Contribuidor), Chiat, Shula (Contribuidor), Gathercole, Virginia C. Mueller (Contribuidor, Editor ), Gorter, Durk (Contribuidor), Hughes, Catrin O. (Contribuidor), Hughes, Emma K. (Contribuidor), Izura, Cristina (Contribuidor), Marinis, Theodoros (Contribuidor), Marín, Javier (Contribuidor), Polišenská, Kamila (Contribuidor), Pérez, Miguel Á. (Contribuidor), Pérez-Tattam, Rocío (Contribuidor), Ravid, Dorit (Contribuidor), Roberts, Emily J. (Contribuidor), Roy, Penny (Contribuidor), Seeff-Gabriel, Belinda (Contribuidor), Stadthagen-González, Hans (Contribuidor), Thomas, Enlli Môn (Contribuidor), Yavas, Feryal (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2013]
Temas:
Bilingualism.
Children > Language.
Education, Bilingual.
Language and languages > Ability testing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • 1. Assessment of Multi-tasking Wonders: Music, Olympics and Language
  • 2. Why Assessment Needs to Take Exposure into Account: Vocabulary and Grammatical Abilities in Bilingual Children
  • 3. Assessment of Language Abilities in Sequential Bilingual Children: The Potential of Sentence Imitation Tasks
  • 4. Assessing Yiddish Plurals in Acquisition: Impacts of Bilingualism
  • 5. Measuring Grammatical Knowledge and Abilities in Bilinguals: Implications for Assessment and Testing
  • 6. Assessment of Bilinguals' Performance in Lexical Tasks Using Reaction Times
  • 7. Assessment and Instruction in Multilingual Classrooms
  • 8. Assessing Multilingual Students' Writing Skills in Basque, Spanish and English
  • 9. Assessment of Academic Performance: The Impact of No Child Left Behind Policies on Bilingual Education: A Ten Year Retrospective
  • 10. Summary of Issues Surrounding the Assessment of Bilinguals and the Way Forward to Solutions
  • Index of Tests and Measures
  • Index of Languages
  • Index of Terms

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