Issues in the Assessment of Bilinguals / / ed. by Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Abugov, Netta,; Armon-Lotem, Sharon,; Arozena, Eli,; Burns, Rebecca,; Caldas, Stephen J.,; Cenoz, Jasone,; Chiat, Shula,; Gathercole, Virginia C. Mueller,; Gorter, Durk,; Hughes, Catrin O.,; Hughes, Emma K.,; Izura, Cristina,; Marinis, Theodoros,; Marín, Javier,; Polišenská, Kamila,; Pérez, Miguel Á.,; Pérez-Tattam, Rocío,; Ravid, Dorit,; Roberts, Emily J.,; Roy, Penny,; Seeff-Gabriel, Belinda,; Stadthagen-González, Hans,; Thomas, Enlli Môn,; Yavas, Feryal,
• HerausgeberIn: Gathercole, Virginia C. Mueller,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

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 speakers, taking into account the facts concerning the processes of learning, speaking and understanding two languages. Issues in the Assessment of Bilinguals brings together researchers working on bilingual and multilingual children and adults in a variety of multilingual settings: typically developing bilingual children, bilingual and multilingual children and adults found in classrooms, and bilingual children growing up in sociolinguistically fluid bilingual communities – making this an essential volume which raises key issues for anyone assessing performance.

Table of Contents

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