Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings write by Sharon Armon-Lotem. This book was released on 2021-11-15. Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. COST Action IS0804 “Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment” aimed to profile bilingual specific language impairment (biSLI) by establishing a network for research on the linguistic and cognitive abilities of bilingual children with SLI across different migrant communities. A battery of tools for Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings (LITMUS) was designed within the Action to achieve these aims, including the Parental Bilingual Questionnaire, the Sentence Repetition Task, the Crosslinguistic Lexical Tasks, the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives, and two nonword repetition tasks that are not language-specific. The chapters in this volume present research on one or more of the LITMUS tasks in bilingual children with typical language development and on use of the LITMUS testing battery for identifying possible language impairment. The work presented here will be of interest for researchers and clinicians alike, and have profound impact in our understanding of bilingual language development and impairment.
Assessing Multilingual Children
Assessing Multilingual Children - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Assessing Multilingual Children write by Sharon Armon-Lotem. This book was released on 2015. Assessing Multilingual Children available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Language, Learning, and Disability in the Education of Young Bilingual Children
Language, Learning, and Disability in the Education of Young Bilingual Children - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language, Learning, and Disability in the Education of Young Bilingual Children write by Dina C. Castro. This book was released on 2021-04-27. Language, Learning, and Disability in the Education of Young Bilingual Children available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using an interdisciplinary perspective to discuss the intersection of language development and learning processes, this book summarizes current knowledge and represents the most critical issues regarding early childhood research, policy, and practice related to young bilingual children with disabilities. The book begins with a conceptual framework focusing on the intersection between the fields of early childhood education, bilingual education, and special education. It goes on to review and discuss the role of bilingualism in young children’s development and the experiences of young bilingual children with disabilities in early care and education settings, including issues of eligibility and access to care, instruction, and assessment. The book explores family experiences, teacher preparation, accountability, and policy, ending with recommendations for future research which will inform both policies and practices for the education of young bilingual children with disabilities. This timely volume provides valuable guidance for teachers, administrators, policymakers, and researchers.
Researching Dyslexia in Multilingual Settings
Researching Dyslexia in Multilingual Settings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Researching Dyslexia in Multilingual Settings write by Deirdre Martin. This book was released on 2013-09-27. Researching Dyslexia in Multilingual Settings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume draws together current research on dyslexia and literacy in multilingual settings across disciplines and methodologies. The contributors, all internationally recognised in the field, address developmental and acquired literacy difficulties and dyslexia in a range of language contexts including EAL/EFL. The book uses theories and analytical frameworks of a critical nature to reveal prejudicial social practices, and suggests future research directions towards a critical re-consideration of current understandings of dyslexia in multilingual settings, with a view to foregrounding the potential for interdisciplinarity. The book also suggests ways forward for evidence-informed practice, and it will be a valuable resource for researchers, practitioners and students alike.
Developing Narrative Comprehension
Developing Narrative Comprehension - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Developing Narrative Comprehension write by Ute Bohnacker. This book was released on 2020-12-15. Developing Narrative Comprehension available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Comprehension of texts and understanding of questions is a cornerstone of successful human communication. Whilst reading comprehension has been thoroughly investigated in the last decade, there is surprisingly little research on children’s comprehension of picture stories, particularly for bilinguals. This can be partially explained by the lack of cross-culturally robust, cross-linguistic instruments targeting early narration. This book presents an inference-based model of narrative comprehension and a tool that grew out of a large-scale European project on multilingualism. Covering a range of language settings, the book uses the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives to answer the question which narrative comprehension skills (bilingual) children can be expected to master at a certain age, and explores how such comprehension is affected (or not affected) by linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. Linking theory to method, the book will appeal to researchers in linguistics and psychology and graduate students interested in narrative, multilingualism, and language acquisition.
