Assessing Multilingual Children by Sharon Armon-Lotem

Assessing Multilingual Children by Sharon Armon-Lotem

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.

This landmark publication brings together various approaches to the diagnosis of language disorders in bilinguals across numerous language pairs and sociolinguistic contextsSuch 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.

-- Johanne Paradis, University of Alberta, Canada

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.

-- Barbara Zurer Pearson, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

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.

 

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ISBN 13	9781783093113
ISBN 10	1783093110
Title	Assessing Multilingual Children
Author	Sharon Armon-Lotem
Series	Communication Disorders Across Languages
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Channel View Publications Ltd
Year published	2015-04-28
Number of pages	376
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.