Articles on Education of Roma
Why Romani Children Needs
In this paper we make one major point: that Roma children in Europe need to be tested in their mother tongue before school placement. Roma children are in a particularly perilous position with respect to their education. We describe the problematic linguistic situation of Roma children, who are bilingual and often bidialectal, but are frequently evaluated in the language of the state for educational placement, a process that has been shown to significantly compromise their chance of success. We then review the considerable empirical evidence that bilingual children must be evaluated in both languages to give a fair assessment of their knowledge and skills. Furthermore, strength in the mother tongue has demonstrable transfer to skills in the second language. We provide a brief summary of a new assessment for Romani that has been used successfully to evaluate children aged 3 to 6 years, and present the results of a new study using it in Slovakia on 29 children aged 3 to 6 years.

 

Kyuchukov, H., de Villiers, J.G. & Takahesu Tabori, A. (2016) Why Roma children need language assessment in Romani. Lincom series in Psycholinguistics.. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313711096_Kyuchukov_H_de_Villiers_JG_Takahesu_Tabori_A_2016_Why_Roma_children_need_language_assessment_in_Romani_Lincom_series_in_Psycholinguistics [accessed Jul 27 2018].

 

 

Author: Roma Center

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