LINGUIST List 22.2094 Mon May 16 2011 FYI: Russian Language Proficiency Test for Children Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Natalia Gagarina , Russian Language Proficiency Test for Children Message 1: Russian Language Proficiency Test for Children Date: 15-May-2011 From: Natalia Gagarina <gagarinazas.gwz-berlin.de> Subject: Russian Language Proficiency Test for Children E-mail this message to a friend The Russian language proficiency test for multilingual children is a linguistically and psycholinguistically-grounded test for L1-Russian bilingual children of pre-school and elementary school age. It allows the evaluation of language proficiency in Russian for scientific, therapeutic, and pedagogical purposes. The test is based on preliminary norms: data of 167 German-Russian bilingual children between the ages of 3 years and 6 years 11 months were evaluated. Bilingual children’s proficiency is examined in the following language domains: (i) productive and receptive lexicon for verbs and nouns, (ii) production of morphological marking on verbs (first and second-person singular present inflection) and nouns (accusative and dative case singular), (iii) comprehension of grammatical constructions on the sentence level. The test should be administered by a competent – ideally native – speaker of Russian, and takes approximately 60 minutes to administer. In addition to the test itself, it contains a questionnaire for gathering detailed information on the input situation as well as the child’s previous linguistic and extra-linguistic development. The questionnaire is written in English and Russian and is intended to be filled out by the parents. Email: testruzas.gwz-berlin.de Webpage : http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/zaspil54.html?&L=1#c5537 Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 16-May-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.