The Assessment of Multilingual Learners: Supporting English Language Learners

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the topic of assessing students who use two or more languages in their daily life. The book provides foundational information for assessing multilingual learners (ML) in schools, with an emphasis on school language and content. This 2nd edition has a greater focus on multilingual assessment.

Kate Mahoney is Professor in TESOL at the State University of New York at Fredonia, USA. She has taught bilingual learners in the US and Belize. Her research has focused on the assessment of Emergent Bilinguals and multilingual learners. The PUMI framework she presents in this book has been adopted and studied in courses across the US.