Prof. PhD Jeanine Treffers-Daller

Speciality: Do balanced bilinguals exist?
A critical review of the concept of language dominance? (abstract)
University: University of Reading, Institute of Education

Further reading of her publications can be found here.

Jeanine Treffers-Daller on the subject „Do balanced bilinguals exist?“

• Any description of bilinguals should minimally involve a description of language proficiency (what a person can do) and language usage (what a person typically does).
• Language dominance is a “global measure of relative frequency of use and proficiency in each language”.
• Language dominance is clearly visible at the level of the lexicon in that bilinguals have words in one of their languages for concepts about which they talk in that language.
• Multilingualism can not be considered as a simple addition of two different languages.

You can find the videos of all talks during the MuDiLe 2017 HERE.

Here you can get access to her PowerPoint slides.

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Interview of Jeanine Treffers-Daller

This interview of Mrs. Treffers-Daller and her husband Mr. Daller was taken during the MUDILE 2017. They talk about their personal experiences with multilingualism, language dominance and balanced bilingualism and about their research projects which are planned for future work.

If you would like to get further information about Jeanine Treffers-Daller, her responsibilities at the University of Reading, areas of interest, research groups/centres or further publications, please visit the following website:
https://www.reading.ac.uk/education/about/staff/j-c-treffers~daller.aspx