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Publication details [#60794]

Bialystok, Ellen and Kathleen F. Peets. 2015. Academic discourse: Dissociating standardized and conversational measures of language proficiency in bilingual kindergarteners. Applied Psycholinguistics 36 (2) : 437–461.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | conversational analysis | kindergarten | language proficiency | testing

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study points out that standardized language proficiency measures insufficiently render bilingual kindergarteners' skills and that their second language abilities may be more exactly represented in conversation.