Sadler Seminar workshop: Quantifying bilingualism
- Date
- Thursday 13 October 2016, 9:00 - 12:00
- Location
- Seminar Room 1 at the LHRI
Programme
9:00 - 10:00
Language dominance based on a questionnaire for parents of bilingual children (PABIQ): child bilingualism in France
Philippe Prévost and Laurie Tuller (University of Tours, France)
10:00 - 11:00
Quantifying bilingual experience: using the (U)BiLEC to estimate input quantity and quality
Sharon Unsworth (University of Nijmegen, NL)
11:00 - 12:00
The Bilingual Profile Index: a gradient measure of bilingual experience
Cécile De Cat (University of Leeds) and Ludovica Serratrice (University of Reading)
This workshop is part of a Sadler Seminar Series on “Young Bilinguals and their Language of Schooling”. This Sadler Seminar series, funded by the Leeds Humanities Research Institute, brings together psychologists, education specialists and linguists to explore issues related to the assessment of bilingual children's proficiency in the language of schooling how to measure the amount and quality of bilinguals' experience in each of their languages the complex relationships between language proficiency, cognitive development and well-being intervention programmes aiming to support bilingual children's language development.