The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN): Adding Urdu to MAIN

Autor/innen

  • Saboor Hamdani
  • Rachel Kan
  • Angel Chan
  • Natalia Gagarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.64.2020.580

Abstract

The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN), an assessment tool in the Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings (LITMUS) battery, aims to improve the assessment of bilingual children. This paper describes the process of adapting MAIN to Urdu. Given the lack of language assessment tools for Urdu-speaking children, the Urdu MAIN is an important new instrument that is made widely and freely accessible to researchers and practitioners, allowing them to examine the narrative abilities of children acquiring Urdu as a first, heritage, second, or additional language.

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Veröffentlicht

2020

Zitationsvorschlag

Hamdani, Saboor, Rachel Kan, Angel Chan, und Natalia Gagarina. 2020. „The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN): Adding Urdu to MAIN“. ZAS Papers in Linguistics 64 (August):257-61. https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.64.2020.580.