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Richard L. Sparks; Abdullah Alamer – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Although researchers have found strong relationships between first language (L1) skills and second language (L2) anxiety, less is known about how L1 skills in primary school impact L2 anxiety years after L1 has been acquired. Previous research lacked evidence for the mediating role of L2 aptitude and L2 achievement in the relationship. This study…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Second Language Learning, Anxiety, Elementary School Students
Yau Yu Chan; Nirmala Rao – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: This study investigated the effectiveness of a home-based intervention in increasing the intrinsic reading motivation and Chinese oral vocabulary of minority South Asian children in Hong Kong. A quasi-experiment was conducted with 78 children (M[subscript age] = 51.54 months; control: 37 children, intervention: 41 children) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Motivation, Vocabulary Development, Children
Marks, Rebecca A.; Sun, Xin; McAlister López, Eva; Nickerson, Nia; Hernandez, Isabel; Caruso, Valeria C.; Satterfield, Teresa; Kovelman, Ioulia – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study aimed to clarify the relations between morphological awareness and literacy skills in Spanish and English in young simultaneous bilingual learners. Guided by theoretical perspectives on the associations between morphological awareness and word- versus sentence-level literacy skills, and their transfer between bilinguals' two languages,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Morphology (Languages), Bilingualism, English (Second Language)
Robinson Anthony, Jonathan J. D.; Blumenfeld, Henrike K.; Potapova, Irina; Pruitt-Lord, Sonja L. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The current work investigates whether language dominance predicts transfer of skills across cognitive-linguistic levels from the native language (Spanish) to the second language (English) in bilingual preschoolers. Sensitivity to cognates ("elephant/elefante" in English/Spanish) and metalinguistic awareness (MLA) have both been shown to…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Transfer of Training, Spanish, English (Second Language)
Language Skills in Greek-English Bilingual Children Attending Greek Supplementary Schools in England
Papastergiou, Athanasia; Sanoudaki, Eirini – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Many parents in the UK enrol their children in Greek supplementary schools so the children can learn and maintain the Greek language and culture in parallel with English mainstream education. Despite fears about the effects of this heritage language (Greek) use on children's skills in the majority language (English), research on these somewhat…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Greek, Language Maintenance, Cultural Maintenance
Swanson, H. Lee; Kong, Jennifer; Petcu, Stefania D. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
This study investigated the stability of latent classes of students with learning disabilities among a heterogeneous sample of elementary-aged children whose first language is Spanish. To this end, children (N = 284) in Grades 1, 2, and 3 at Wave 1 (Year 1) were administered a battery of vocabulary, reading, math, and cognitive measures…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Students with Disabilities, English (Second Language), Spanish Speaking
Nicoladis, Elena; Mimovic, Anastassija – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Bilingual children's dominance can predict a variety of language and cognitive outcomes. The purpose of this study was to test the validity of parents' classifications of 3- to 6-year-old bilingual children's dominance against relative receptive vocabulary scores. In Study 1, the parents' classifications of Mandarin-English bilingual children's…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, French, English (Second Language), English
Eghbaria-Ghanamah, Hazar; Ghanamah, Rafat; Shalhoub-Awwad, Yasmin; Adi-Japha, Esther; Karni, Avi – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Oral language proficiency in kindergarten can facilitate the acquisition of reading and writing. However, in diglossic languages, like Arabic, the large gap between the spoken and the formal, modern standard (MSA) varieties of the language may restrict the benefits of oral language proficiency to subsequent literacy skills. Here, we tested, in a…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Oral Language, Language Proficiency, Kindergarten
H. Lee Swanson; Genesis D. Arizmendi; Jui-Teng Li – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
This cohort-sequential study explored the working memory (WM) structures that underlie growth in mathematical word problem solving (WPS) performance in elementary school emergent bilingual children whose first language (L1) is Spanish. To this end, children (N = 429) in Grades 1, 2, and 3 in southwest U.S. school districts at Wave 1 were…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Problem Solving, Word Problems (Mathematics), Elementary School Students
Hedi Kwakkel; Mienke Droop; Ludo Verhoeven; Eliane Segers – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
This study investigated the impact of second language (L2) lexical quality on L2 reading comprehension in bilingual primary education. The participating children were taught in the L2 English for 30-50% of the time and the remaining time in their L1 Dutch. Seventy-three pupils from four different schools were assessed in the L2 on vocabulary,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Bilingualism, Elementary School Students, Vocabulary Development
Oh, Min Hyun; Mancilla-Martinez, Jeannette – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: Despite the unprecedented growth of Spanish-English dual language learners (DLLs) in new destination states--where DLLs have not been historically served--empirical understanding of their language and literacy skills is scant. Drawing on scientific understandings of bilingual language acquisition, we compare monolingually scored and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Spanish Speaking, English (Second Language), Grade 2
Xu, Chang; Di Lonardo Burr, Sabrina; Skwarchuk, Sheri-Lynn; Douglas, Heather; Lafay, Anne; Osana, Helena P.; Simms, Victoria; Wylie, Judith; Maloney, Erin A.; LeFevre, Jo-Anne – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Canadian students enrolled in either French-immersion or English-instruction programs were followed from Grades 2 to 3 (M[subscript age] = 7.8 years to 8.9 years; N = 244; 55% girls). In each grade, students completed two mathematical tasks that required oral language processing (i.e., word-problem solving and number transcoding from dictation)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immersion Programs, French, English
Willard, Jessica A.; Leyendecker, Birgit; Kohl, Katharina; Bihler, Lilly-Marlen; Agache, Alexandru – Applied Developmental Science, 2022
Can early childhood education (ECE) support the societal language development of children from linguistically diverse backgrounds? This study examined how existing variation in classroom interaction quality (CLASS Pre-K), classroom composition (percentages of children from low-income backgrounds and dual language learners [DLLs]), and duration of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Classroom Communication
White, Michelle J. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
The current longitudinal study set out to investigate the development of working memory and English language skills of 5-6 year old English Language Learners. These English Language Learners are all in their first year of formal schooling and all attend the same school in South Africa. South Africa has a rich linguistic diversity which results in…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Short Term Memory
Goriot, Claire; van Hout, Roeland; Broersma, Mirjam; Lobo, Vanessa; McQueen, James M.; Unsworth, Sharon – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
This study investigated to what extent the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT-4) is a reliable tool for measuring vocabulary knowledge of English as a second language (L2), and to what extent L1 characteristics affect test outcomes. The PPVT-4 was administered to Dutch pupils in six different age groups (4-15 years old) who were or were not…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students