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Gibbons, John; Lascar, Elizabeth – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1998
To discover the extent to which academic register develops in language-minority children, it is important to describe the academic register of the minority language and then to develop instruments to measure its development. This article looks at the means that were developed to accomplish these two tasks of description and instrument development…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
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McKinnie, Meghan P. L.; Priestly, Tom – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2004
This paper treats methodological issues involved in assessing linguistic competence in the field, specifically in bilingual fieldwork situations. First, the various means of assessment of linguistic competence that have been described and/or used are listed and commented on. Then the authors explain the choice of assessment methods for fieldwork…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Language Minorities, Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods