Bilingual assessment: Can overall proficiency be estimated from separate measurement of two languages?

By E. Thordardottir, Alyssa Rothenberg, Marie-Eve Rivard, R. Naves. 2006

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. J. Paradis
2. S. Place
3. M. Namazi
4. E. Hoff
5. E. Thordardottir
6. S. Unsworth
7. C. Muñoz
8. Angela Grimm

In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. E. Hoff
2. J. Paradis
3. S. Place
4. E. Thordardottir
5. Rosario Rumiche
6. Melissa Señor
7. M. Parra
8. Cynthia Core

Citations in the corpus

• Bilingual Children's Acquisition of English Verb Morphology: Effects of Language Exposure, Structure Complexity, and Task Type (2010, background): “This study signals the need for general caution in interpreting the results of tests normed with monolinguals when assessing bilingual children (see also Paradis, 2005; Thordardottir et al., 2006).”
• Interpreting the Early Language Trajectories of Children from Low SES and Language Minority Homes: Implications for Closing Achievement Gaps (2012, unknown): “…both their languages, show that bilingual children equal or exceed monolingual children in their rates of vocabulary development (Hoff et al., 2012; Pearson, Fernández, & Oller, 1993; Thordardottir et al., 2006) and, in one study, grammatical development as well (Thordardottir et al., 2006).”
• A working memory, not bilingual advantage, in controlled attention (2010, background): “Following Thordardottir et al. (2006), all parents answered a detailed questionnaire on their children’s language exposure (including context, amount, length, and age of exposure), parent education, birth order, medical history, and general development.”
• The relationship between bilingual exposure and vocabulary development (2011, methodology): “The bilingual children’s relative amount of exposure to each language was assessed by a method developed in a previous study (Elin Thordardottir et al., 2006).”
• Dual language exposure and early bilingual development* (2011, result): “summed the bilingual children’s English and Spanish scores, revealed the bilingual and monolingual groups to be virtually identical, consistent with findings from other studies (e.g. Junker & Stockman, 2002; Pearson et al., 1993; Thordardottir et al., 2006).”
• The interface between bilingual development and specific language impairment (2010, background): “Thordardottir et al. (2006) found that French–English bilingual 2.5-year-olds had scores lower than monolingual-based expectations on measures of vocabulary and syntactic development in both languages, although scores were more consistently lower in English than in French.”