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[eal-bilingual] CiLT Primary Languages Show

John Bald johnbald at talktalk.net
Wed Jan 9 19:22:53 GMT 2008

Article: [eal-bilingual] CiLT Primary Languages Show

I have a lot of personal experience with this kind of case. The test writers 
are right to say that standardised norms don't fit, in which case a test or 
any other assessment has to inform professional judgement and not act as a 
crutch for it, as I fear it sometimes does. I begin with an analysis of the 
person's work, and of what they do and don't understand, then look for 
patterns in the errors and think of possible causes. I build up from there, 
keeping samples of work as a record of progress. It doesn't help with a 
label, but it does help the students. Best wishes, John Bald 


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