An Ethnographic/sociolinguistic approach to language proficiency assessment / edited by Charlene Rivera.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Rivera, Charlene, Author.

Contributor:

Rivera, Charlene.

Conference Name:

Language Proficiency Assessment (LPA) Symposium (1981 : Warrenton, Va.)

Series:

Multilingual matters (Series) ; 8

Multilingual matters ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bilingualism--Congresses.

Bilingualism.

Language and culture--Congresses.

Language and culture.

Communicative competence--Congresses.

Communicative competence.

Language and languages--Ability testing--Congresses.

Language and languages.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 140 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Clevedon, Avon, England : Multilingual Matters, c1983.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

A sociolinguistic/discourse approach to the description of the communicative competence of linguistic minority children / Adrian Bennett and Helen Slaughter

Linguistic reportoires, communicative competence and the Hispanic child / Flora Rodríguez-Brown and Lucia Elías-Olivares

Intergenerational variation in language use and structure in a bilingual context / Shana Poplack

Studying Puerto Rican children's informal education at home / Evelyn Jacob

An ethnographic approach to bilingual language proficiency assessment / Susan U. Philips

Teacher training and ethnographic/sociolinguistic issues in the assessment of bilingual students' language proficiency / Carmen Simich-Dudgeon and Charlene Rivera

An anthropological linguistic perspective on uses of ethnography in bilingual language proficiency assessment / Muriel Saville-Troike.

Notes:

Papers from the Language Proficiency Assessment Symposium held March 14-18, 1981 at Airlie House Conference Center, Warrenton, Va.

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

0-585-24867-2