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Jordaan, Heila L.; van Zyl, Ashleigh; O'Brien, Tracey – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2021
Background: The educational context in South Africa does not always support the development of bilingualism to enable the cognitive and social advantages of dual language proficiency. The emphasis on English as the language of instruction overlooks bilingual competence. This study attempts to show that by considering conceptual vocabulary,…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Elementary School Students, Indo European Languages, English (Second Language)
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Chen, Stephen H.; Zhou, Qing; Uchikoshi, Yuuko – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
Though a number of language socialization processes are theorized to promote children's heritage language proficiency (HLP), little research has considered these processes in a single study and examined their prospective relations to multiple domains of HLP in school-age children. In a two-wave longitudinal study of Chinese American children of…
Descriptors: Socialization, Chinese Americans, Language Proficiency, Longitudinal Studies
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Johanna Cena; Doris Luft Baker; Edward J. Kame'enui; Scott K. Baker; Yonghan Park; Keith Smolkowski – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
This study examined the impact of a 15-min daily explicit vocabulary intervention in Spanish on expressive and receptive vocabulary knowledge and oral reading fluency in Spanish, and on language proficiency in English. Fifty Spanish-speaking English learners who received 90 min of Spanish reading instruction in an early transition model were…
Descriptors: Spanish, Intervention, Expressive Language, Receptive Language