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Langeloo, Annegien; Mascareño Lara, Mayra; Deunk, Marjolein I.; Klitzing, Nikolai F.; Strijbos, Jan-Willem – Review of Educational Research, 2019
Teacher-child interactions are the most important factor that determines the quality of early-childhood education. A systematic review was conducted to gain a better understanding of the nature of teacher-child interactions that multilingual children are exposed to, and of how they differ from teacher-child interactions of monolingual children.…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction, Multilingualism, Bilingual Students
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Shintani, Natsuko; Saito, Kazuya; Koizumi, Rie – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
The purpose of this case study is twofold: it (1) explores multilingual raters' judgements regarding the accentedness and comprehensibility of second language speech and (2) examines how the raters' language backgrounds influence their judgements. In this study, six multilingual Singaporean raters judged the accentedness and comprehensibility of…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Evaluators, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
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Sun, He; Steinkrauss, Rasmus; Wieling, Martijn; de Bot, Kees – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
This study examines the English vocabulary development of 43 very young child English as a foreign language (FL) learners (age 3.2-6.2) in China. They were tested twice for vocabulary breadth (reception and production) and semantic depth (paradigmatic and syntagmatic vocabulary knowledge). The development of the English vocabulary knowledge…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Chinese