REPOSITORY OF ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS FOR SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT

Integrated Investigators: Sandra Figueiredo (GO))

Collaborating Researchers: Margarida Alves Martins (ISPA/R&D – CIE), Carlos Fernandes (University of Aveiro (UA)/R&D – CINTESIS)

This project prepared a set of assessment and intervention instruments, with about 15 cognitive and linguistic assessment tasks, aimed at immigrant students from Portugal. Assessment tools are being assessed for the Portuguese school immigrant population and will, after validation, be placed in an electronic repository of instruments at the service of the national education system. The deficient school practices and the lack of research scenario in the area of processes and cognitive processing in Second Language are the basis of this research, as well as the increasing presence of migrant groups and groups with refugee status. This research project has the current organization: (1) application of tests for validation in migrant population (including refugee population); (2) data analysis and formation of cognitive and linguistic profiles of linguistic minority groups; (3) analysis of teachers' representations of the immigrant student population; (4) preparation of a app for immigrant and foreign populations: assisted learning in European Portuguese; (5) construction of the instrument repository on a web platform (6).

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