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Channel View Publications Ltd Assessing Multilingual Children Disentangling Bilingualism from Language Impairment 2015 Edition by Sharon Armon-lotem, Jan De Jong, Natalia Meir
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. Table of contents :- Sharon Armon-Lotem and Jan de Jong: IntroductionSyntax and its Interfaces1. Jan de Jong: Elicitation Task for Subject Verb Agreement2. Esther Ruigendijk: Contrastive Elicitation Task for Testing Case Marking3. Philippe Prevost: Elicited Production of Object Clitics4. Petra Schulz: Comprehension of Exhaustive wh-questions5. Theodoros Marinis and Sharon Armon-Lotem: Sentence RepetitionPhonological and Lexical Processing6. Shula Chiat: Nonword Repetition7. Daniela Gatt, Ciara O'Toole and Ewa Haman: Using Parental Report to Assess Early Lexical Production in Children Exposed to More than one Language8. Ewa Haman, Magdalena Luniewska and Barbara Pomiechowska: Designing Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks (CLTs) for Bilingual Preschool ChildrenBeyond Modality9. Natalia Gagarina, Daleen Klop, Sari Kunnari, Koula Tantele, Taina Valimaa, Ingrida Balciuniene, Ute Bohnacker and Joel Walters: Assessment of Narrative Abilities in Bilingual Children10. Kristine Jensen de Lopez and Anne E. Baker: Executive Functions in the Assessment of Bilingual Children with Language ImpairmentFrom Theory to Practice11. Laurice Tuller: Clinical Use of Parental Questionnaires in Multilingual Contexts12. Elin Thordardottir: Proposed Diagnostic Procedures for Use in Bilingual and Cross-Linguistic Contexts