Russian language proficiency test for multilingual children = Sprachstandstest Russisch für mehrsprachige Kinder

Abstract

The 'Russian language proficiency test for multilingual children' is a linguistically and psycholinguistically-grounded test for L1-Russian bilingual children of pre-school and elementary school age. It allows the evaluation of language proficiency in Russian for scientific, therapeutic, and pedagogical purposes. The test is based on preliminary norms: data of 167 German-Russian bilingual children between the ages of 3 years and 6 years 11 months were evaluated.
 
 Bilingual children's proficiency is examined in the following language domains:
 
 - productive and receptive lexicon for verbs and nouns
 
 - production of morphological marking on verbs (first and second-person singular present verbal inflection) and nouns (accusative and dative case singular)
 
 - comprehension of grammatical constructions on the sentence level
 
 The test should be administered by a competent – ideally native – speaker of Russian, and takes approximately 60 minutes to administer.
 
 In addition to the test itself, the 'Russian language proficiency test for multilingual children' contains a questionnaire for gathering detailed information on the input situation as well as the child's previous linguistic and extra-linguistic development. The questionnaire is written in English and Russian and is intended to be filled out by the parents.

Polish-German preschoolers develop and use heritage Polish differently depending on whether they heard German from birth or not

“…Four concerned production. Like in the parental questionnaire developed by Gagarina et al (2010) , parents were asked to evaluate their children’s comprehension and production skills in each language on a Likert scale (see also Meir and Janssen, 2021 ).…”

Reference to characters in narratives of Russian-Hebrew bilingual and Russian and Hebrew monolingual children with Developmental Language Disorder and typical language development

“…To assess proficiency in Russian, the Russian Language Proficiency Test for Multilingual Children (Gagarina et al, 2010) was administered. This test includes measures of expressive (noun/verb naming, production of case, and verb inflections) and receptive language (comprehension of grammatical constructions, nouns, and verbs).…”

Mehrsprachigkeit in deutschsprachigen Kontexten

“…In dieser Studie wird mithilfe des Stroop Tests untersucht, welche kognitiv protektiven Effekte Mehrsprachigkeit auf die Inhibition hat, indem Daten von deutsch und deutsch-polnischen von Demenz betroffenen Personen (n=19) erhoben werden. Für die Vergleichbarkeit der Ergebnisse werden zudem ein Sprachstandstest (Gagarina et al 2010) und ein Screening für Exekutivfunktionen durchgeführt (Lubitz/Niedeggen 2018). Eine deskriptive Analyse zeigt, dass die mehrsprachigen Probanden trotz höherer kognitiver Defizite besser in dem Stroop Test abschneiden als die monolinguale Vergleichsgruppe.…”