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标题：Why Roma Children Need Language Asessments in Romani
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作者：Hristo Kyuchukov ; Jill de Villiers ; Andrea Takahesu Tabori 等
期刊名称：Psychology of Language and Communication
印刷版ISSN：1234-2238
出版年度：2017
卷号：21
期号：1
页码：215-243
DOI：10.1515/plc-2017-0011
语种：English
出版社：Walter de Gruyter GmbH
摘要：In this paper we make one major point: that Roma children in Europe need to be tested in their mother tongue before school placement. Roma children are in a particularly perilous position with respect to their education. We describe the problematic linguistic situation of Roma children, who are bilingual and often bidialectal, but are frequently evaluated in the language of the state for educational placement, a process that has been shown to significantly compromise their chance of success. We then review the considerable empirical evidence that bilingual children must be evaluated in both languages to give a fair assessment of their knowledge and skills. Furthermore, strength in the mother tongue has demonstrable transfer to skills in the second language. We provide a brief summary of a new assessment for Romani that has been used successfully to evaluate children aged 3 to 6 years, and present the results of a new study using it in Slovakia on 29 children aged 3 to 6 years.
关键词：Roma children ; assessment ; Romani ; bilinguals