The trees for the forest: Assessing child multilingualism through monolingual norms (original) (raw)
Abstract
Multilingualism concerns what people do with language, not what languages do to people, although approaches to multilingualism go on focusing on particular languages, away from their users. In addition, multilinguals are not the sum of several monolinguals, although multilingual behaviour goes on being scrutinised through monolingual norms of usage. This seminar addresses these paradoxes, drawing on a survey of assessment practices in a multilingual context, involving multilingual clinicians and multilingual children. Results from this survey and from previous research lay bare two core issues in multilingual assessment: first, the difficulties in telling apart multilingual ability from language disorder; and second, what needs to be done to address multilingualism from a multilingual perspective, that does justice to multilingual competence.
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