Issues in the assessment of bilinguals. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole.
• Other Names: Mueller-Gathercole, Virginia C editor of compilation.
• Contents: 1. Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole: Assessment of Multi-Tasking Wonders: Music, Olympics, and Language 2. Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole, Enlli Môn Thomas, Emily J. Roberts, Catrin O. Hughes and Emma K. Hughes: Why Assessment Needs to Take Exposure into Account: Vocabulary and Grammatical Abilities in Bilingual Children 3. Shula Chiat, Sharon Armon-Lotem, Theodoros Marinis, Kamila Polišenská, Penny Roy and Belinda Seeff-Gabriel: Assessment of Language Abilities in Sequential Bilingual Children: The Potential of Sentence Imitation Tasks 4. Netta Abugov and Dorit Ravid: Assessing Yiddish Plurals in Acquisition: Impacts of Bilingualism 5. Rocío Pérez Tattam, Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole, Feryal Yavas and Hans Stadthagen-González: Measuring Grammatical Knowledge and Abilities in Bilinguals: Implications for Assessment and Testing 6. Miguel A. Pérez, Cristina Izura, Hans Stadthagen-González and Javier Marín: Assessment of Bilinguals’ Performance in Lexical Tasks Using Reaction Times 7. Rebecca Burns: Assessment and Instruction in Multilingual Classrooms 8. Jasone Cenoz, Eli Arozena, Durk Gorter: Assessing Multilingual Students’ Writing Skills in Basque, Spanish and English 9. Stephen J. Caldas: Assessment of Academic Performance: The Impact of No Child Left Behind Policies on Bilingual Education: A Ten Year Retrospective 10. Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole: Summary of Issues Surrounding the Assessment of Bilinguals and the Way Forward
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Multilingual Matters
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Subjects: 404.2; EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General; Language and languages -- Ability testing; Education, Bilingual; Bilingualism; Children -- Language; MEDICAL / Audiology & Speech Pathology; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching; Speech & language disorders & therapy; Educational strategies & policy; Language learning: specific skills
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783090112; 1783090111
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.