description: Sentence repetition testing (SRT) is a methodology for investigating patterns of community-wide bilingualism. It is a screening device for testing for bilingualism in an entire community, and it is a valid test for second-language proficiency. High correlations have been found between the performance of second-language speakers on SRTs and descriptive estimations of second-language proficiency. These two methodologies give promise of being reliable in the assessment of language proficiency in low literacy rate contexts.
language: English
title: Sentence Repetition Testing for Studies of Community Bilingualism
titlecomplete: Sentence Repetition Testing for Studies of Community Bilingualism (SIL International and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics, vol. 104)
publisher: Summer Institute of Linguistics