Multilingual Norms
By: Madalena Cruz-Ferreira, ed
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9783631596371
Description: Multilinguals are not multiple monolinguals. Yet multilingual assessment proceeds through monolingual norms, as if fair conclusions were possible in the absence of fair comparison. In addition, multilingualism concerns what people do with language, not what languages do to people. Yet research focus remains on multilinguals' languages, as if languages existed despite their users. This book redresses these paradoxes. Multilingual scholars, teachers and speech-language clinicians from Europe, Asia, Australia and the US contribute the first studies dedicated to multilingual norms, those found in real-life multilingual development, assessment and use. Readership includes educators, clinicians, decision-makers and researchers interested in multilingualism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: label: Notes on contributors
title: ix; label: Multilingualism, language norms and multilingual contexts - Madalena Cruz-Ferreira
title: 1; label: Part 1
title: Multilingualism and language norming
pagenum: 19; label: Part 2
title: Multilingual child language development
pagenum: 53; label: Part 3
title: Home and school language uses in multilingual contexts
pagenum: 141; label: Part 4
title: Language assessment in multilingual contexts
pagenum: 251; label: Afterword - Li Wei
title: 397; label: Index/Glossary
title: 405