<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Albert,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">thanks for asking. For the purpose of this survey we use the terms „sign language assessment“ and „sign language test“ interchangeably. So it refers to any kind of SL tests for L1 and/or L2 learners.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best wishes,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tobias</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class=""><div class="moz-cite-prefix">ndividual proficiency in understanding and producing the language? L1 vs. L2?</div></div></blockquote><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 27.01.2015 um 17:23 schrieb Albert Bickford <<a href="mailto:albert_bickford@SIL.ORG" class="">albert_bickford@SIL.ORG</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
  

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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">As a matter of clarification, what type
      of assessment are you talking about? Individual proficiency in
      understanding and producing the language? L1 vs. L2?  Vitality of
      the language community as a whole?  Attitudes of its users towards
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Albert Bickford
SIL International
  Linguistic Services Coordinator, Global Sign Languages Team
  Director, SIL-UND

Please use different email addresses for different topics:
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      On 2015/01/27 7:35 AM, Tobias Haug wrote:<br class="">
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            book on current/shared issues related to assessment of
            signed and spoken languages. To help us identify the most
            relevant topics, we  would appreciate your feedback. To
            facilitate this, we have put together a mini online survey:</font></div>
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        <div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font class="" face="Arial">If you could compete this survey we
            would greatly appreciate it. It will take you about 10
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        <div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font class="" face="Arial">Best wishes,</font></div>
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        <div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font class="" face="Arial">Tobias Haug, Zurich &
            Wolfgang Mann, London</font></div>
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