1. A gradient Bilingual Dominance Scale
Description: A bilingual gradient scale consisting of lexical and sentence translation tasks.
Languages: Spanish/English
Source: Dunn, A. L. & Fox Tree, J.E. (2009). A quick, gradient Bilingual Dominance Scale. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 12(3), 273-289.
2. The development and validation of a Korean C-Test using Rasch Analysis
Description: C-Test
Language: Korean
Source: Sunyoung, L. (2009). The development and validation of a Korean C-Test using Rasch Analysis. Language Testing, 26(2), 245-274.
3. Linguistic correlates of proficiency in Korean as a second language
Description: Linguistic Correlates of Proficiency (LCP)
Language: Korean
Source: Lee, S-Y., Moon, J., & Long, M. H. (2009). Linguistic correlates of proficiency in Korean as a second language. Language Research, 45 (2).
4. Determining language dominance in English–Mandarin bilinguals
Description: Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
Languages: Mandarin/English
Source: Lim, V.P.C. et al. (2008). Determining language dominance in English–Mandarin bilinguals: Development of a self-report classification tool for clinical use. Applied Psycholinguistics, 29, 389-412.
5. The Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire (LEAP-Q)
Description: The Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire (LEAP-Q)
Languages: Spanish/English
Source: Marian, V. et al. (2007). The Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire (LEAP-Q): Assessing language profiles in bilinguals and multilinguals. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 50, 940-967.
6. A standardized set of 260 pictures for assessing differences and similarities in the processing of pictures and words
Description: Picture-naming task
Languages: Any language
Source: Snodgrass, J. G. & Vanderwart, M. (1980). A standardized set of 260 pictures: Norms for name agreement, image agreement, familiarity, and visual complexity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 6(2), 174-215.
7. The case of four large-scale tests of ESOL ability Assessing language dominance in bilingual acquisition
Description: Mean Length of Utterance (MLU)
Languages: Cantonese/English
Source: Yip, V. & Matthews, S. (2006). Assessing language dominance in bilingual acquisition: A case for mean length utterance differentials. Language Assessment Quarterly, 3(2), 97-116.
8. Assessing language dominance in bilingual acquisition
Description: Mean Length of Utterance (MLU)
Languages: Cantonese/English
Source: Yip, V. & Matthews, S. (2006). Assessing language dominance in bilingual acquisition: A case for mean length utterance differentials. Language Assessment Quarterly, 3(2), 97-116.
B. Example Proficiency Assessments
1. Example Proficiency Exams
Description: Vocabulary, semantics, listening comprehension and more for Russian language instruction.
Language: Russian
Source: Dr. Tania Ivanova-Sullivan, University of New Mexico
2. DELE Proficiency Test
Description: Multiple choice and cloze test with answers.
Language: Spanish
Source: Dr. Silvina Montrul, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
3. Role-play situations to elicit requests
Description: The role plays elicit requestive acts on the part of the speaker being tested. Based on the CCSARP by Blum-Kulka, House, & Kasper (1989. Cross-cultural pragmatics: Requests and apologies). In the category of speech act pragmatics.
Language: Russian
Source: Irina Dubinina, Brandeis University. Please contact Irina for materials by email at: idubinin@brandeis.edu
