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Kaushanskaya, Margarita; Crespo, Kimberly – Child Development, 2019
This study investigated whether the effect of exposure to code-switching on bilingual children's language performance varied depending on verbal working memory (WM). A large sample of school-aged Spanish-English bilingual children (N = 174, Mage = 7.78) was recruited, and children were administered language measures in English and Spanish. The…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Correlation
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Cummins, James; Mulcahy, Robert – Child Development, 1978
Investigated the influence of Ukrainian-English bilingualism on first and third grade children's awareness of the arbitrary nature of word-referent relationships and on their ability to analyze linguistic input. (JMB)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, English
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Hess, Thomas M.; Radtke, Robert C. – Child Development, 1981
Analyzes the roles of verbal coding skills, processing efficiency, and memory ability in accounting for individual and developmental differences in the reading comprehension of children in grades 3 through 8. Results indicate that skill differences can arise through ability differences at two independent levels--processing speed and memory.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Individual Differences, Language Processing