Novel word learning is the process of acquiring new vocabulary with limited exposure to the words and without direct instruction.
Downloadable PDF: Research Summary- Discriminating Disorder from Difference Using Dynamic Assessment in Bilingual Children.pdf
This study builds on recent evidence of the usefulness of dynamic assessment (DA) along with a mediated learning experience (MLE) and graduated prompting as a more appropriate method of determining the presence of language disorder (LD) in culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) children. Read More
Model Eval- Tagalog.English.8-0.pdf
TL is an 8 year old sequential Tagalog/English bilingual with typically developing language skills. TL began learning English once she entered school, which is taught in English. Read More
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The purpose of this article was to determine whether dynamic assessment (DA) of word learning was accurate in identifying the presence of language impairment (LI) in preschool-age bilingual children. Bilingual children are often misidentified as language impaired under current assessment practices due to flawed assessment procedures.
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