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Developing an Assessment of Vocabulary Proficiency for Irish-English Bilingual Children: The Irish Crosslinguistic Lexical Tasks
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Ciara O'Toole – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Assessing vocabulary knowledge is an important part of establishing language proficiency in bilingual children. The crosslinguistic lexical tasks (CLTs) provide a framework for testing vocabulary development in three-to-six year-olds using a standard procedure and comparable items for multiple languages. This study describes the development of the…
Descriptors: Irish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Task Analysis
A Longitudinal Study of Early Reading Development in Two Languages: Comparing Literacy Outcomes in Irish Immersion, English Medium and Gaeltacht Schools
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Parsons, Christine E.; Lyddy, Fiona – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2016
Schools in Ireland vary in how they introduce reading in the two official languages, Irish and English. There is particular variability within immersion (Irish medium) schools. Some introduce Irish reading first (IRF) and others English reading first (ERF). This study compared the development of Irish and English skills in children attending…
Descriptors: Literacy, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Longitudinal Studies