Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction
5. 1. Modeling and assessing language proficiency 3
6. Section 1. First Language Proficiency
7. 2. The construct of grammar in early language development 23
8. 3. Dimensons in grammatical proficiency 33
9. 4. Monitoring reading and spelling achievement 49
10. 5. Speech activity theory and reading comprehension assessment 61
11. 6. Assessment of reading disabilities 71
12. 7. Information analysis in written discourse 85
13. 8. Large scale writing assessment 101
14. Section 2: Multilingual Proficiency
15. 9. Differential item functioning 115
16. 10. Assessment of bilingual proficiency 125
17. 11. Self-assessment of minority language proficiency 137
18. 12. Exploring the second language learner lexicon 147
19. 13. Modeling communicative second language competence 163
20. 14. Modeling and assessing foreign language loss 175
21. 15. Dimensions in oral foreign language proficiency 187
22. Subject index 207
23. List of contributors 211