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Hagen, Åste Mjelve; Knoph, Rebecca; Hjetland, Hanne Naess; Rogde, Kristin; Lawrence, Joshua Fahey; Lervåg, Arne; Melby-Lervåg, Monica – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
Listening comprehension involves the ability to understand and extract meaning from spoken sentences, stories, and instruction. This skill is vital for young children and has long-term effects on school achievement, employability, income, and participation in society. There is a lack of measures of young children's listening comprehension skills.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, At Risk Students, Listening Comprehension, Language Acquisition
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Rhys, Mirain; Thomas, Enlli Môn – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2013
Previous studies have highlighted early differences in bilinguals' rate of language acquisition in comparison with monolinguals. However, these differences seem to disappear with increasing age and exposure to the language, and do so quicker in dominant community languages than in minority status languages. This study aimed to replicate these…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Welsh, Receptive Language