Posts Tagged grammar
More on Proficiency
Posted by Elizabeth D. Peña in adult bilingualism, child bilingualism, grammar, language impairment, vocabulary on February 5, 2009
The issue of language proficiency is often of central concern in working with a bilingual population and I’ve written about it before. Here, I want to continue that discussion and invite comments from both research and practical perspectives. So, the questions are:
What is proficiency?
How is it defined (or how should it be defined)?
How should it be measured? Read the rest of this entry »
How to measure proficiency: More questions than answers here
Posted by Elizabeth D. Peña in grammar, vocabulary on January 18, 2009
In research as well as in educational and other settings the question of linguistic proficiency is critical. This question is something that I continually struggle with in working with children. How proficient is proficient enough? What does it mean? What should we measure? I’ve been influenced by my own clinical background and the work of other researchers in this area. Read the rest of this entry »
