8 Cognitive Academic Skills: an Attempt to Operationalize the Concept

Chapters in this book

1. I-VIII I
2. 1 Language and Ethnic Minorities in The Netherlands: Current Issues and Research Areas 1
3. 2 Language Input Characteristics in Spontaneous Interaction of Native Children with Non-Native Peers 15
4. 3 Moroccan and Turkish Children in The Netherlands: The Influence of Social Factors on Tempo and Structure of L2 Acquisition 49
5. 4 Structural and Temporal Aspects of Turkish Children's Reading Dutch as a Second Language 65
6. 5 The Brussels Foyer Bicultural Education Project: Socio-Cultural Background and Psycho-educational Language Assessment 87
7. 6 Ethnic Group Differences in Children's Oral Proficiency of Dutch 105
8. 7 Cultural Biases in Second Language Testing of Children 133
9. 8 Cognitive Academic Skills: an Attempt to Operationalize the Concept 147
10. 9 Educational Settings, Teaching Methods and Second Language Proficiency of Turkish and Moroccan Children 167
11. 10 Referral of Ethnic Minority Children to Special Education 187
12. 11 Text Comprehension of Bilingual Turkish Children in Dutch Primary and Secondary Schools 197
13. 12 Spatial Reference in L2 Dutch of Turkish and Moroccan Adult Learners: The Initial Stages 209
14. References 253
15. List of Authors 265