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Ramírez, Rica; Huang, Becky H.; Salazar, Kimberly; Eik, Mari – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: Systematic reviews of bilingual children's reading development are very limited, and none of which solely focus on predictors of reading difficulties among those with developmental language disorder (DLD). The present scoping review fills an important need by analyzing the recent research literature on the reading outcomes of bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Reading Skills, Reading Difficulties, Language Impairments
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Karalik, Tuncay; Merç, Ali – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2019
The present meta-analysis aimed to explore the correlates of listening comprehension in first (L1) and second language (L2). In this regard, the overall average correlation scores, obtained from several primary studies retrieved from several databases, between linguistic (vocabulary size, vocabulary depth, syntactic knowledge), cognitive (working…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Native Language, Correlation, Vocabulary Skills
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Grundy, John G.; Timmer, Kalinka – Second Language Research, 2017
Bilinguals often outperform monolinguals on executive function tasks, including tasks that tap cognitive flexibility, conflict monitoring, and task-switching abilities. Some have suggested that bilinguals also have greater working memory capacity than comparable monolinguals, but evidence for this suggestion is mixed. We therefore conducted a…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Jeon, Eun Hee; Yamashita, Junko – Language Learning, 2014
The present meta-analysis examined the overall average correlation (weighted for sample size and corrected for measurement error) between passage-level second language (L2) reading comprehension and 10 key reading component variables investigated in the research domain. Four high-evidence correlates (with 18 or more accumulated effect sizes: L2…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Meta Analysis
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Harris, Yvette R.; Schroeder, Valarie M. – International Education Studies, 2013
This focus of this paper is to present an overview of the current research which examines the language and literacy performance of African American children who speak African American Vernacular English (AAVE), as presented from a deficit versus difference perspective. Language and literacy and assessment and remediation of AAVE speakers are…
Descriptors: African American Students, Children, Black Dialects, Native Language