Oral Language Dominance & Proficiency

THE ASSESSMENT OF LANGUAGE DOMINANCE AND PROFICIENCY

The focus of this paper is the assessment of oral language dominance and proficiency. Language proficiency refers to the degree to which an individual exhibits control over the use of the rules of a language for one, some, or all of its numerous and diverse aspects: phonological, syntactic, and lexical systems, orthography, discourse and stylistic rules for oral and written communication in various social circumstances. Language dominance refers to an individual's degree of bilingualism, that is, the relative proficienc

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