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The Production of Preverbal and Postverbal Subjects by Italian Heritage Children: Timing of Acquisition Matters
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Listanti, Andrea; Torregrossa, Jacopo – First Language, 2023
Heritage language (HL) speakers seem to diverge from monolingual speakers in the acquisition of syntax-discourse interface phenomena. However, most of the studies reporting this finding do not make any distinction between different types of syntax-discourse interface structures. Therefore, it is an open question whether these structures are…
Descriptors: Italian, Language Acquisition, Verbs, Narration
Features of Speech in German and US-American Mother-Toddler Dyads during Toy Play and Book-Reading
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Doering, Elena; Schluter, Kevin; von Suchodoletz, Antje – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Previous research indicates that features of speech during mother-toddler interactions are dependent on the situational context. In this study, we explored language samples of 69 mother-toddler dyads collected during standardized toy play and book-reading situations across two countries, Germany and the United States (US). The results showed that…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Toddlers, Story Reading
The Effects of Balanced Biliteracy on Greek-German Bilingual Children's Secondary Discourse Ability
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Bongartz, Christiane; Torregrossa, Jacopo – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
Several studies have revealed the cognitive and linguistic benefits of balanced bilingualism, but the research on balanced biliteracy is still in its initial stages (Marinis et al. submitted. "Biliteracy Education Impacts on Cognition Selectively"). This study investigates the positive effects of balanced biliteracy on the development of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Literacy, Personal Narratives, Greek
"I Am Not a Guinea Pig": Parental Opportunity Hoarding and Tracking Reform in Germany
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Apple, Lana; Debs, Mira – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2021
PISA test data from 2000 to today have shown Germany's education system is one of the most inequitable within the OECD, with high correlations between student background and achievement outcomes. Scholars have identified the highly differentiated school structure, which tracks students as young as 10 years old, as a central cause. This scholarship…
Descriptors: Track System (Education), Case Studies, Outcomes of Education, Correlation
Managing Knowledge Claims in Classroom Discourse: The Public Construction of a Homogeneous Epistemic Status
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Heller, Vivien – Classroom Discourse, 2017
Drawing on sequential and multimodal analysis of video-recorded classroom interactions, the paper examines in detail the interactional practices and verbal and bodily displays that serve to (re-)establish a congruency between the teacher's expectation with regard to the participants' relative knowledge and the students' actual knowledge claims. By…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities, Classroom Techniques, Classroom Communication
Crossing the Lexicon: Anglicisms in the German Hip Hop Community
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Garley, Matthew E. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The influence of English on German has been an ongoing subject of intense popular and academic interest in the German sphere. In order to better understand this language contact situation, this research project investigates anglicisms--instances of English language material in a German language context--in the German hip hop community, where the…
Descriptors: Music, German, Computational Linguistics, Ethnography