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Otwinowska, Agnieszka; Mieszkowska, Karolina; Bialecka-Pikul, Marta; Opacki, Marcin; Haman, Ewa – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
Reading and telling stories to children improves their narrative skills, which is well-documented for monolinguals, but not for bilinguals. We investigated whether bilingual narratives improve when the child is provided with a model story. We studied the narratives of Polish-English bilingual children (n = 75, mean age 5;7 years; months) raised in…
Descriptors: Story Reading, Story Telling, Narration, Bilingualism
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Otwinowska, Agnieszka; Szewczyk, Jakub M. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
In this study we explored factors that determine the knowledge of L2 words with orthographic neighbours in L1 (cognates and false cognates). We asked 150 Polish learners of English to translate 105 English non-cognate words, cognates, and false-cognates into Polish, and to assess the confidence of each translation. Confidence ratings allows us to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition