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Guzman-Orth, Danielle A.; Lopez, Alexis A.; Tolentino, Florencia – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2019
The purpose of this study was to create and prototype a dual language assessment task that allows young English learners to use their entire cadre of linguistic resources (language and non-verbal resources) to obtain information about their emergent language abilities. We developed a dual language assessment task in which students described a…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English Language Learners, Language Tests, Task Analysis
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Alt, Mary; Arizmendi, Genesis Dominique; Gray, Shelley; Hogan, Tiffany Patrice; Green, Samuel; Cowan, Nelson – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: We compared novel word learning in 2nd-grade children with typical development who were Spanish-English bilinguals to English monolinguals to understand word learning in bilingual children. Method: Children (monolinguals n = 167, bilinguals n = 76) engaged in 5 computer-based tasks that assessed word learning in 6 different contexts. The…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Spanish