In this session we explore strategies for assessing literacy skills (i.e., reading and writing) emergent bilingual students' languages. We will begin with a quiz and then discuss the material and assessment procedures.
1. Describe the theories that explain the receptive-expressive gap in bilingual children with and without primary language development.
2. What did Gibson and colleagues find in their study of bilingual children?
3. Describe Klingner's approach to distinguishing language acquisition from learning disabilities.
4. Describe some of the misconceptions about English language learners.
False cognates are words that appear similar across languages but have different meanings.
For a list of false cognates in Spanish, go to: https://research.steinhardt.nyu.edu/scmsAdmin/media/users/nbm3/SpanishEnglishFalseCognates.pdf
For a list of false cognates in French go to: https://research.steinhardt.nyu.edu/scmsAdmin/media/users/xr1/glossaries/ELA/GlossaryCognatesFrenchUpdated5-5-2014.pdf