An Ethnographic/sociolinguistic approach to language proficiency assessment
By: edited by Charlene Rivera.
Contributors: Rivera, Charlene.; Language Proficiency Assessment (LPA) Symposium (1981 : Warrenton, Va.)
Series: Multilingual matters ;; 8; Multilingual matters (Series) ;; 8.
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Clevedon, Avon, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: Language and languages -- Ability testing -- Congresses.; Language and culture -- Congresses.; Bilingualism -- Congresses.; Communicative competence -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Papers from the Language Proficiency Assessment Symposium held March 14-18, 1981 at Airlie House Conference Center, Warrenton, Va.
Table of contents: title: A sociolinguistic/discourse approach to the description of the communicative competence of linguistic minority children / Adrian Bennett and Helen Slaughter; title: Linguistic reportoires, communicative competence and the Hispanic child / Flora Rodríguez-Brown and Lucia Elías-Olivares; title: Intergenerational variation in language use and structure in a bilingual context / Shana Poplack; title: Studying Puerto Rican children's informal education at home / Evelyn Jacob; title: An ethnographic approach to bilingual language proficiency assessment / Susan U. Philips; title: Teacher training and ethnographic/sociolinguistic issues in the assessment of bilingual students' language proficiency / Carmen Simich-Dudgeon and Charlene Rivera; title: An anthropological linguistic perspective on uses of ethnography in bilingual language proficiency assessment / Muriel Saville-Troike.