Lecture 4

Question 1

When devising bilingual intervention what are two important considerations to keep in mind?

Answer 1

Linguistic and cultural considerations

Question 2

What are the practice guidelines outlined in professional bodies of work? Are these guidelines being followed in clinical practice?

Answer 2

> SLP should support both languages> Should have near-native proficiency in both> Understand cultural variability > Ability to conduct interventionin L1- No these aren’t being followed in real life - most SLPs are monolingual and report using only one language of intervention

Question 3

Describe some research into unilingual therapy (only one language) and what the outcomes of these experiments have told us about this approach.

Answer 3

> Teaching children narrative in L1 yielded better results than teaching in L2 (more comfortable, more practice at home) > Teaching new words in L2 using L1 extensions was more effective What this tells us: transfer occurs when the goals target overlapping features of both languages such as narratives or expansions

Question 4

Kohnert(2008) concluded that bilingual children with LI will probably not spontaneously transfer…

Answer 4

info learned in L1 to L2 - better to provide intervention in both = the ideal

Question 5

What are the two approaches to multilingual therapy?

Answer 5

1. Bilingual appraoch2. Cross-linguistic approach

Question 6

In bilingual approach therapist selects LT and ST goals in both languages within single treatment session and addresses them in treatment using the following 3 options…

Answer 6

Option 1. Focus on shared underlying info processing skills that are a common area of WEAKNESS across both languagesOption 2. Select goals that focus on STRUCTURAL aspects of language content/form shared b/w the two. (cognates) Option 3. Select goals that improve metalinguistic ability by comparing and contrasting vocab, grammar and pragmatics of both Ls

Question 7

The bilingual appraoch is highly innovative with a sound theoretical basis but what is the problem?

Answer 7

Rarely used in therapy and not enough evidence to support its efficacy

Question 8

In a cross linguistic approach the SLP targets each language separately

Answer 8

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