Heritage language speakers occupy a unique and often misunderstood position within multilingual societies. In many parts of the world, millions of children grow up hearing one language at home while becoming educated and socially integrated through another. These individuals are frequently described as “heritage language speakers.” Yet despite the term’s widespread use, there is no […]
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Language Assessments for Bilingual and Multilingual Children
Parents of multilingual children worry the most if their children will be able to keep up with all the languages and have a sufficient knowledge, proficiency, academically speaking, once they go to school. Schools do regular language and literacy assessments and even international schools tend to assess the school language only or at least also the dominant language – […]
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