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Publication details [#48972]
Gathercole, Virginia C., Enlli Mon Thomas and Emma Hughes. 2008. Designing a Normed Receptive Vocabulary Test for Bilingual Populations: A Model from Welsh. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 11 (6) : 678–720. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
Annotation
This article presents an applied model for evaluating bilingual children's language proficiency skills (in casu regarding Welsh vocabulary) via standardised tests. It is argued that all standardised bilinguals' language ability tests ought to consider children's language exposure and ought to report both on general and relative scores.