Assessing Multilingual Children

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.

• Sharon Armon-Lotem and Jan de Jong: IntroductionSyntax and its Interfaces1. Jan de Jong:  Elicitation Task for Subject Verb Agreement2. Esther Ruigendijk: Contrastive Elicitation Task for Testing Case Marking3. Philippe Prévost: Elicited Production of Object Clitics4. Petra Schulz: Comprehension of Exhaustive wh-questions5. Theodoros Marinis and Sharon Armon-Lotem: Sentence RepetitionPhonological and Lexical Processing6. Shula Chiat: Nonword Repetition7. Daniela Gatt, Ciara O’Toole and Ewa Haman: Using Parental Report to Assess Early Lexical Production in Children Exposed to More than one Language8. Ewa Haman, Magdalena Łuniewska and Barbara Pomiechowska: Designing Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks (CLTs) for Bilingual Preschool ChildrenBeyond Modality9. Natalia Gagarina, Daleen Klop, Sari Kunnari, Koula Tantele, Taina Välimaa, Ingrida Balčiūnienė, Ute Bohnacker and Joel Walters: Assessment of Narrative Abilities in Bilingual Children10. Kristine Jensen de Lopéz and Anne E. Baker: Executive Functions in the Assessment of Bilingual Children with Language ImpairmentFrom Theory to Practice11. Laurice Tuller: Clinical Use of Parental Questionnaires in Multilingual Contexts12. Elin Thordardottir: Proposed Diagnostic Procedures for Use in Bilingual and Cross-Linguistic Contexts

This landmark publication brings together various approaches to the diagnosis of language disorders in bilinguals across numerous language pairs and sociolinguistic contexts.   Such comprehensive coverage is unparalleled in any previous volume on this topic.  An important feature of this book is that it includes in-depth rationales for task development and extensive details about the tasks. This makes it an invaluable resource to both clinicians and researchers in the field of language development and disorders.