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Ocena dwujęzyczności dziecięcej przy zastosowaniu formuły RIOT
Assessment of Childhood Bilingualism Using the RIOT Formula

Author(s): Rafał Młyński
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: bilingualism; diagnosis; RIOT

Summary/Abstract: International standards in speech-language pathology provide for different formulas for the diagnosis of multilingual (including bilingual) children. One of them is RIOT (Review, Interaction, Observation, Test), based on the ethnographic study of the patient/client in various contexts, analysis of the collected documentation and testing of linguistic competence. This work is an example of the application of the RIOT formula in the study of a bilingual, Polish-Russian girl B. from Belarus. This allowed for a multi-context analysis of the child’s bilingualism, culminating in a diagnosis of Russian and Polish language subsystems.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 159-170
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish