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In:Multilingual Acquisition and Learning: An ecosystemic view to diversity
Edited by Elena Babatsouli
[Studies in Bilingualism 67] 2024
► pp. 295–323

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Chapter 11
Dynamic assessment in phonology

A review and its application to French monolingual and bilingual children

 | University of Geneva
 | University of Geneva
Published online: 30 May 2024
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https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.67.11keh
Abstract
Dynamic assessment (DA) is an approach strongly recommended for bilingual children since it measures children’s learning capacities and not their static knowledge. It has been widely applied to the assessment of children’s lexical, morphosyntactic, and narrative abilities but minimally so to children’s phonological abilities; however, its application to phonology has existed for many years in the form of stimulability testing. This chapter reviews the notion of stimulability and how it has been integrated into DA approaches to phonological production, primarily in English. The authors describe two French DAs of phonology, which manipulate linguistic environment and cue levels, and target structures that are late acquired in French speech sound development. The chapter presents preliminary data on them with French-speaking monolingual and bilingual children.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Literature review
    • 2.1Stimulability
      • 2.1.1Prognostic value of stimulability
      • 2.1.2Factors influencing stimulability
      • 2.1.3Theoretical underpinnings of stimulability
      • 2.1.4Stimulability training
    • 2.2Stimulability and dynamic assessment
      • 2.2.1The scaffolding scale of stimulability (SSS)
      • 2.2.2Glaspey dynamic assessment of phonology (GDAP)
      • 2.2.3Other dynamic tests of phonology
  • 3.Dynamic assessment of French-speaking children
    • 3.1The Dynamique-Dépistage rapide articulation et phonologie (D-DRAP) test
      • 3.1.1Description of the test
      • 3.1.2The study
    • 3.2Evaluation dynamique de la phonologie (EDP)
      • 3.2.1Description of the test
      • 3.2.2The study
  • 4.Conclusion
  • References
  • Appendix
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