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Magdalena Luniewska; Magdalena Krysztofiak; Weronika Bialek; Martyna Burdach; Ewa Komorowska; Grzegorz Krajewski; Judyta Pacewicz; Julia Radzikowska; Nina Gram Garmann; Ewa Haman – First Language, 2025
Vocabulary assessment is an important part of measuring language proficiency in both monolingual and bilingual children. The LITMUS Cross-Linguistic Lexical Tasks (CLT) provides a framework for assessing the vocabulary of monolingual and bilingual children using a standardized procedure and comparable stimuli across languages. All language…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Monolingualism, Vocabulary Development
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Gampe, Anja; Kurthen, Ira; Daum, Moritz M. – First Language, 2018
The current study describes the development and validation of a novel scale (BILEX) designed to assess young bilingual children's receptive vocabulary in both languages, their conceptual vocabulary, and translational equivalents. BILEX was developed to facilitate the assessment of vocabulary size for both of the children's languages within one…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Bilingualism, Bilingual Students, Preschool Children
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Rasmussen, Sissal M.; Bleses, Dorthe – First Language, 2018
The focus of this article is Faroese children's early vocabulary acquisition using a Faroese adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (MBCDI) parental report. The study is a population-based cross-sectional study including 1135 children aged 8-36 months. The article has two objectives: the first is to describe the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Skills, Measures (Individuals), Vocabulary Development
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Kalashnikova, Marina; Schwarz, Iris-Corinna; Burnham, Denis – First Language, 2016
For more than 20 years, the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) and its adaptations for languages other than English have been used as reliable measures of infants' and toddlers' early receptive and productive vocabulary size. This article introduces the OZI, the Australian English adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates CDI, now…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Language Skills, Measures (Individuals)
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Hovsepian, Alice – First Language, 2017
The purpose of this study was to develop a parallel bilingual vocabulary measure for the comparative study of receptive and expressive vocabulary growth in young Armenian-English bilinguals. The measure was comprised of four independent vocabulary lists equivalent on age of acquisition ratings. The lists were counterbalanced across four tasks,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development, Outcome Measures, Bilingual Education