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Ribot, Krystal M.; Hoff, Erika – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2014
Relations between bilingual children's patterns of conversational code-switching (responding to one language with another), the balance of their dual language input, and their expressive and receptive proficiency in two languages were examined in 115 2½-year-old simultaneous Spanish-English bilinguals in the U.S. Children were more likely to…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Code Switching (Language), Expressive Language, English (Second Language)
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Goodrich, J. Marc; Lonigan, Christopher J.; Farver, JoAnn M. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2014
The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the cross-language relations between the phonological awareness (PA) skills of preschool children learning more than one language are dependent upon their first-and second-language oral language skills. Four hundred sixty-six Spanish-speaking language minority children participated in this study.…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Language Skills, Native Language, Second Language Learning