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Lisa Fitton; J. Marc Goodrich; Lauren Thayer; Amy Pratt; Rose Luna – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: This study explored approaches for measuring vocabulary among bilingual children with varying levels of proficiency in Spanish and English. Method: One hundred fifteen kindergarten and first-grade Spanish--English-speaking children completed measures of vocabulary and sentence repetition in Spanish and English. Scores were derived from…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Vocabulary, Language Tests, Spanish
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Wu, Dandan; Cai, Liman; Liang, Luyao; Li, Hui – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study explored the patterns and predictors of code-switching (CS) in Singapore preschoolers by analyzing the data elicited from an existing early childhood corpus. Altogether 943 cases of CS produced by 111 children aged 2;6, 3;6, 4;6, 5;6, respectively, were analyzed. The results indicated that: (1) 'insertion', 'intersentential', and…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Code Switching (Language), Computational Linguistics, Age Differences
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Mancilla-Martinez, Jeannette; Hwang, Jin Kyoung; Oh, Min Hyun; Pokowitz, Elena Lauren – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Elementary-age dual language learners (DLLs) from Spanish-speaking homes in the United States are often characterized as at risk for low vocabulary in both Spanish and English. This longitudinal study examined conceptually scored receptive and expressive vocabulary development among DLLs from Spanish-speaking, low-income homes and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Elementary School Students, Vocabulary Development, Spanish Speaking
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Mancilla-Martinez, Jeannette; Kieffer, Michael J. – Educational Researcher, 2010
This study investigates change in the home language environment of Language Minority (LM) learners between kindergarten and eighth grade, drawing on data from the National Center for Education Statistics' Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten (ECLS-K) Cohort. The analytic sample included 1,538 children whose parents reported a language…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Patterns, Kindergarten, Grade 8
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Iddings, Ana Christina DaSilva; Jang, Eun-Young – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2008
For this article we aimed to understand the emergence of English as a second language for a newly immigrated Mexican student, a native speaker of Spanish, enrolled in a mainstream kindergarten classroom, who was undergoing the "silent period" (Krashen, 1981). Applying ecological approaches that emphasize learners in relationship with their…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Palludan, Charlotte – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2007
This article examines how kindergarten-children are differentiated and segregated through vocal practices and processes. The analysis is based on empirical data, which originate from a long ethnographic fieldwork in Denmark. The author presents two different language tones: "a teaching tone and an exchange tone" and shows a pattern in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Stimulation, Minority Group Children