Assessing Multilingual Children - Disentangling Bilingualism from Language Impairment

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.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Natalia De Jon, Sharon De Jon
• Con la collaborazione di: Sharon Armon-Lotem (Editore), Jan De Jong (Editore), John H. a. L. de Jong (Editore), John H.A.L de Jong (Editore), Jan de Jong (Editore), Natalia Meir (Editore)
• Editore: Multilingual Matters
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 28.04.2015
• EAN: 9781783093120
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-312-0
• Pagine: 378
• Dimensioni: 161 mm x 240 mm x 25 mm
• Peso: 731 g
• Serie: Communication Disorders Across Languages; Communication Disorders Across; Communication Disorders Across; Communication Disorders Across Languages
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Altre lingue / altre letterature