Assessment and Developmental Trajectories in Multilingual Learners

In multilingual learners, it is often difficult to tell whether difficulties in reading and writing stem from a learning disability or from linguistic and educational circumstances. We investigate how the two can be distinguished diagnostically and how literacy and non-cognitive characteristics of monolingual and multilingual learners develop over time.

Team: Dr. Susanne Hoff, Dr. Anne Barwasser, Prof. Dr. Carsten Klöpfer, Prof. Dr. Matthias Grünke

Cooperation: Prof. Dr. Katherine Lewis (University of Washington)

Selected publications

• Hoff, S., Klöpfer, C., Grünke, M., Lewis, K., & Barwasser, A. (in press). Distinguishing learning disabilities from language- and education-related barriers: A mixed-methods case analysis of multilingual learners. International Journal for Research in Learning Disabilities.