Issues in the Assessment of Bilinguals (eBook)

lt;p>Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole is Professor of Linguistics at Florida International University, Professor of Psychology at Bangor University, and until recently acted as Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory and Practice at Bangor University. Her research focuses on monolingual and bilingual language acquisition, especially in relation to semantics, morpho-syntax and assessment, and the acquisition of English, Spanish, and Welsh in Spanish-English, Welsh-English, and Spanish-Welsh bilinguals. Professor Gathercole is an Associate Editor of First Language and has been working in the field for over 30 years.

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