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Direct linkBialystok, Ellen; Luk, Gigi – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
English receptive vocabulary scores from 797 monolingual and 808 bilingual participants between the ages of 17 and 89 years old were aggregated from 20 studies to compare standard scores across language groups. The distribution of scores was unimodal for both groups but the mean score was significantly different, with monolinguals obtaining higher…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Receptive Language
Gibson, Todd A.; Oller, D. Kimbrough; Jarmulowicz, Linda; Ethington, Corinna A. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
Adults and children learning a second language show difficulty accessing expressive vocabulary that appears accessible receptively in their first language (L1). We call this discrepancy the receptive-expressive gap. Kindergarten Spanish (L1)-English (L2) sequential bilinguals were given standardized tests of receptive and expressive vocabulary in…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Expressive Language
Yan, Stephanie; Nicoladis, Elena – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2009
By school age, some bilingual children can score equivalently to monolinguals in receptive vocabulary but still lag in expressive vocabulary. In this study, we test whether bilingual children have greater difficulty with lexical access, as has been reported for adult bilinguals. School-aged French-English bilingual children were given tests of…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Vocabulary Development, Receptive Language
