Purpose The authors examined the effects of conceptual scoring on the performance of
simultaneous and sequential bilinguals on standardized receptive and expressive …

Purpose: Traditional approaches to studying bilingual language development through
bilingual–monolingual comparisons are deeply flawed. They are also insufficient as the …

Purpose: Evidence suggests that children present with receptive language skills that are
equivalent to or more advanced than expressive language skills. This profile holds true for …

The oral language assessment of bilingual children is challenging. The assessment
practices and challenges faced by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in countries where …

Purpose The utility of parent and teacher reports for screening 3 types of bilingual
preschoolers (English–first language [L1]/Mandarin–second language [L2], Mandarin …

For professionals working with multilingual children, detecting language deficits in a child's
home language can present a challenge. This is largely due to the scarcity of standardized …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to improve standardized language assessments
among bilingual toddlers by investigating and removing the effects of bias due to …

Background The phonological and morphosyntactic structures of English and Mandarin
contrast maximally and an increasing number of bilinguals speak these two languages …

Purpose: Language assessment of bilingual/bidialectal children can be complex. This is
particularly true for speakers from China, who are likely to be bilingual and bidialectal at the …

We assessed the impact of non-native language input on Spanish–English bilingual
preschool-age children's language skills. Most participants (96%) had language skills within …