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Assessment of Heritage Language Abilities in Bilingual Arabic-German Children with and without Developmental Language Disorder: Comparing a Standardized Test Battery for Spoken Arabic to an Arabic LITMUS Sentence Repetition Task
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Lina Abed Ibrahim – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: To avoid misdiagnosis with developmental language disorder (DLD) in bilingual children, it is recommended to evaluate both languages. However, unlike their monolingual peers, bilingual children acquire their heritage language under adverse input conditions. Focusing on Levantine Arabic, the study evaluates the clinical utility of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Native Language, Language Skills
Maximizing Linguistic and Cognitive Potential: The Role of Vocal Training with Pop Songs in Teaching English as a Foreign Language
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Antonio Vivone; Dominik Rumlich; Andreas Lehmann-Wermser – Learning: Research and Practice, 2025
This research addresses lexical deficits among EFL learners by investigating the pedagogical potential of vocal training with authentic pop songs for multi-word unit acquisition. Drawing on cognitive neuroscience, the study builds on evidence that music enhances brain plasticity and that musical and linguistic syntax share neural processing…
Descriptors: Music Education, Singing, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Syntax