The CHESL Centre consists of resources to assist clinicians and educators in assessing the language development of children learning English as a second language from diverse first language backgrounds (ELLs). Here is a description of what is available on this website:

Questionnaires

• ALDeQ: Parent questionnaire on a child's first language abilities and language development history with norm referencing

  • Appropriate for use ELL children aged 4.5 to 7.5 years, with between 4 months to 40 months of exposure to English as a second language

• ALEQ: Parent questionnaire on a child's language environment, including home language use among family members, parent fluency in the second language and family demographics.

  • Different versions of the ALEQ on this site for different age ranges of ELL children and youth

Alternative norm referencing with calculator

• Norm referencing tool based on ELL performance across different combinations of standardized tests of receptive vocabulary, production of grammatical morphology, non-word repetition and narratives.

• Appropriate for use ELL children aged 4.5 to 7.5 years, with between 4 months to 40 months of exposure to English as a second language

Sentence repetition task

• Developed for Canadian English (and Syrian Arabic) with norm referencing provided

• Appropriate for ELL children 6 to 12 years of age with 4-40 months of exposure to English

Additional Resources

• Reading material about dual language development and disorders and additional testing resources