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Assessing Language Dominance in Bilingual Acquisition: A Case for Mean Length Utterance Differentials
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Yip, Virginia; Matthews, Stephen – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2006
The notion of language dominance is often defined in terms of proficiency. We distinguish dominance, as a property of the bilingual mind and a concept of language knowledge, from proficiency, as a concept of language use. We discuss ways in which language dominance may be assessed, with a focus on measures of mean length of utterance (MLU).…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Language Proficiency