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Sunny K. Park-Johnson – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book gives an overview of the linguistic development of Korean-English bilingual children living in the US. It provides a detailed longitudinal account of English and Korean acquisition in early childhood, offering a close examination of Korean-American children's code-switching and morphology and syntax development during a time when their…
Descriptors: Korean, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Heritage Education
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Lago, Sol; Mosca, Michela; Stutter Garcia, Anna – Language Learning, 2021
Multilingual research could offer a unique perspective on how the languages already acquired by a person affect the online processing of a new language. But it is currently difficult to assess this issue because theoretical accounts of multilingualism have focused on acquisition rather than processing and most empirical research to date has…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Prediction
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Birdsong, David – Applied Linguistics, 2014
The present article examines the relationship between age and dominance in bilingual populations. Age in bilingualism is understood as the point in development at which second language (L2) acquisition begins and as the chronological age of users of two languages. Age of acquisition (AoA) is a factor in determining which of a bilingual's two…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Bilingualism, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Bunch, George C. – Review of Research in Education, 2013
Sooner or later, as schools move to implement the new Common Core and other forthcoming standards, almost every teacher in the United States will face the challenge of how to support students from homes where English is not the dominant language in meeting subject-matter academic expectations that require increasingly demanding uses of language…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Dominance
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Aronin, Larissa; Jessner, Ulrike – AILA Review, 2014
Research methodology is determined by theoretical approaches. This article discusses methods of multilingualism research in connection with theoretical developments in linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and education. Taking a brief glance at the past, the article starts with a discussion of an issue underlying the choice of…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Research Methodology, Applied Linguistics, Trend Analysis
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Torres-Olave, Blanca Minerva – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2012
This article explores the "geographies of difference" at LI-NSU, a Mexican university program where English is the predominant language of instruction. The interactions between LI-NSU students and students from other programs are marked by themes of national identity and symbolically charged views of English, creating a contested…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Nationalism, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Duarte, Beatriz A.; Greybeck, Barbara; Simpson, Cynthia G. – Advances in Special Education, 2013
The evaluation of minority children for special education by law should be nondiscriminatory. To be in compliance with federal mandates such as the Individuals with Disability Education Act (IDEA), No Child Left Behind (NCLB), and Public Law 94-142, minority children who are also English language learners (ELLs) should be assessed in their native…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Learning Disabilities, Minority Group Students, Special Education
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Cheung, Alan C. K.; Slavin, Robert E. – Review of Educational Research, 2012
This review synthesizes research on English reading outcomes of all types of programs for Spanish-dominant English language learners (ELLs) in elementary schools. It is divided into two major sections. One focuses on studies of language of instruction and one on reading approaches for ELLs holding constant language of instruction. A total of 13…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Evidence, Cooperative Learning, Reading Programs
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Rah, Anne – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2010
The present study investigates transfer effects in two groups of German learners of French for ambiguous relative clause (RC) constructions. The first learner group had started to learn French before English, whereas the second group had started to learn English before French. The RC attachment ambiguity is interesting to study possible transfer…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Figurative Language, Language Processing, French
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Albirini, Abdulkafi; Benmamoun, Elabbas; Saadah, Eman – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
This study presents an investigation of oral narratives collected from heritage Egyptian and Palestinian Arabic speakers living in the United States. The focus is on a number of syntactic and morphological features in their production, such as word order, use of null subjects, selection of prepositions, agreement, and possession. The degree of…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Semitic Languages, Language Dominance, Grammar
Cheung, Alan C. K.; Slavin, Robert E. – Center for Research and Reform in Education, 2012
This review synthesizes research on English reading outcomes of all types of programs for Spanish-dominant ELLs in elementary schools. It is divided into two major sections. One focuses on studies of language of instruction, and one on reading approaches for ELLs other than bilingual education. A total of 14 qualifying studies met the inclusion…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Reading Programs, Minority Group Students, Bilingual Education
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Smith, Daniel J. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2009
Analysis of Spanish and English speech in a new immigrant community of Latinos in Georgia, USA, shows that Spanish and English pattern differently. There is a higher frequency of Spanish sentences containing English words than English sentences containing Spanish words. But the reverse is true of grammatical influence without mixing words. There…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Dominance, Community Study, Immigrants
Center for Research and Reform in Education, 2012
This review synthesizes research on English reading outcomes of all types of programs for Spanish-dominant ELLs in elementary school. It is divided into two major sections: the effect of language of instruction on achievement (i.e., bilingual vs. English-only instruction) and effective reading approaches for ELLs other than the use of native…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction
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Schwartz, Mila; Kozminsky, Ely; Leikin, Mark – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2009
The objective of this study was to evaluate the first language (L1) vocabulary knowledge in a large-scale sample (n = 70) of second-generation Russian-Jewish immigrants in Israel. The interest in this research population follows from the unique demographic, sociocultural, linguistic, and psychological distinctiveness of RJ immigration in Israel.…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Jews, Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development
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Dunn, Alexandra L.; Fox Tree, Jean E. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2009
The lack of consistency in how bilingual language dominance is assessed currently impedes cross-experiment comparisons (Grosjean, 1998). We present a paper-and-pencil dominance scale that can be used to quantify the language dominancy of bilingual participants. The scale targets three main criteria important in gauging dominance (Grosjean, 1998;…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Translation, Measures (Individuals), Language Fluency
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