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Mayberry, Rachel I.; Hatrak, Marla; Ilbasaran, Deniz; Cheng, Qi; Huang, Yaqian; Hall, Matt L. – Developmental Science, 2024
The hypothesis that impoverished language experience affects complex sentence structure development around the end of early childhood was tested using a fully randomized, sentence-to-picture matching study in American Sign Language (ASL). The participants were ASL signers who had impoverished or typical access to language in early childhood. Deaf…
Descriptors: Young Children, Language Enrichment, Educationally Disadvantaged, Language Acquisition
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Doucerain, Marina M. – Applied Linguistics, 2019
Understanding the mechanisms underlying the development of migrants' second language (L2) competence in naturalistic settings is a pressing concern for receiving societies. Several studies have established a positive relation between people's self-positioning with respect to the L2 ethnolinguistic group and their L2 competence, but the mechanisms…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Skills, Acculturation, Immigrants
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Hamann, Edmund T.; Catalano, Theresa – Language Policy, 2021
Dual language (DL) programs propose to be vehicles of social justice and transformation by valuing an additional language other than the dominant one in a society and thereby contesting language hierarchies and the subordination of those who speak/use a non-dominant language (Flores, Flores, Educational Policy 30:13-38, 2016; Menken and GarcĂ­a,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Social Justice, Native Language, Second Language Learning