Dynamic Assessment zur Erfassung von Fast-Mapping-Prozessen und Spracherwerbsstrategien bei drei- bis fünfjährigen Kindern im anfänglichen Deutschspracherwerb.

The assessment of language development of bilingual children, especially with little exposure to German as their second language, has been difficult until today. Standardized test procedures, which have been normed on monolingual samples, can only be used to a limited extent for the diagnosis of multilingual children. In addition to the combination of different standardized assessments and the diagnosis of the children's first, the construction of so-called Dynamic Assessment has increased recently. The present study describes the design of a Dynamic Assessment of early language competencies in multilingual children with little exposure to German as their second language (N = 15). The main question examines the extent children to with children with little exposure to German use fast-mapping competencies and word acquisition strategies and the extent to which these can be influenced by an intervention. Results show no significant changes in either domain after intervention. Still, the previously neglected static assessment of word acquisition strategies proved promising for further research projects with larger samples and control group designs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]