Assessing Multilingual Children: Disentangling Bilingualism from Language Impairment

Published by Multilingual Matters 2015

Assessing Multilingual Children

Disentangling Bilingualism from Language Impairment

Edited by: Sharon Armon-Lotem , Jan de Jong and Natalia Meir

In the series Communication Disorders Across Languages

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783093137

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About this book

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 Specific Language Impairment (SLI), making use of both models of bilingualism and models of language impairment.

Author / Editor information

Armon-Lotem Sharon :

Sharon Armon-Lotem is Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature and Linguistics and a member of The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar Ilan University, Israel.

de Jong Jan :

Jan de Jong is Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is a member of the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication.

Meir Natalia :

Natalia Meir is currently working on her PhD in the Department of English Literature and Linguistics at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

Sharon Armon-Lotem is Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature and Linguistics and a member of The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar Ilan University, Israel.

Jan de Jong is Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is a member of the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication.

Natalia Meir is currently working on her PhD in the Department of English Literature and Linguistics at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

Reviews

Barbara Zurer Pearson, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA:

Armon-Lotem, de Jong, Meir and their 100+ collaborators dreamed the impossible and then accomplished their dream. Now, they’re taking the crucial step to share it freely with clinicians, teachers, parents and policy-makers concerned with understanding language impairment in the context of bilingualism. Through this book and the many articles referenced in it, we can find thoughtful advice about general principles for diagnosing two languages in one child and also practical strategies for examining the dozens of languages and hundreds of language pairs encompassed by this ground-breaking project.

Johanne Paradis, University of Alberta, Canada:

This landmark publication brings together various approaches to the diagnosis of language disorders in bilinguals across numerous language pairs and sociolinguistic contexts. Such comprehensive coverage is unparalleled in any previous volume on this topic. An important feature of this book is that it includes in-depth rationales for task development and extensive details about the tasks. This makes it an invaluable resource to both clinicians and researchers in the field of language development and disorders.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction Sharon Armon-Lotem and Jan de Jong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1 Syntax and Its Interfaces
1 .Elicitation Task for Subject– Verb Agreement Jan de Jong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2 .Contrastive Elicitation Task for Testing Case Marking Esther Ruigendijk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
3. Elicited Production of Object Clitics Philippe Prévost Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
4. Comprehension of Exhaustive Wh-Questions Petra Schulz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
5. Sentence Repetition Sharon Armon-Lotem and Theodoros Marinis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Part 2 Phonological and Lexical Processing
6. Non-Word Repetition Shula Chiat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
7. Using Parental Report to Assess Early Lexical Production in Children Exposed to More Than One Language Daniela Gatt, Ciara O’Toole and Ewa Haman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
8 .Designing Cross-Linguistic Lexical Tasks (CLTs) for Bilingual Preschool Children Ewa Haman, Magdalena Łuniewska and Barbara Pomiechowska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
Part 3 Beyond Modality
9 .Assessment of Narrative Abilities in Bilingual Children Natalia Gagarina, Daleen Klop, Sari Kunnari, Koula Tantele, Taina Välimaa, Ingrida Balčiūnienė, Ute Bohnacker and Joel Walters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
10. Executive Functions in the Assessment of Bilingual Children with Language Impairment Kristine Jensen de Lopéz and Anne E. Baker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Part 4 From Theory to Practice
11. Clinical Use of Parental Questionnaires in Multilingual Contexts Laurice Tuller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
12. Proposed Diagnostic Procedures for Use in Bilingual and Cross-Linguistic Contexts Elin Thordardottir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Language Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361