language tests

[Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith]

try Ioanna Berthoud at Geneva University - she and Helga Kircher did
some work on children's translation.
Annette K-S

>Dear,
>
>I am busy making recording of my child aged now 3,5 years, speaking
>both Dutch and Arabic. I have been doing this from his birth on, first by
>means of dairies and then by audio and video recordings. From the
>age of 3, I have been making recording of the child in two contexts,
>one informal spontaneous conversations, and the other one when
>'reading books for him'.
>Recently, I heard that there are 'translation tasks' used with the
>bilingual children. Do you know maybe of this type of tests, and their
>reliability? Do you know of any other useful tests used with bilingual
>children as complementary to free talks recordings?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Dr. Yahya E-Rramdani
>Tilburg University
>Babylon: Centre for Studies of the Multicultural Society
>Tilburg University
>PB 90153
>5000 LE Tilburg
>The Netherlands
>Tel: +31 (0)13-466.20.27
>FAx: +31-(0)13-466.31.10
>http://let.uvt.nl/GENERAL/PEOPLE/YE-RRAMD/