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Kim, Su Yeong; Zhang, Minyu; Chen, Shanting; Song, Jiaxiu; Lopez, Belem G.; Rodriguez, Erin M.; Calzada, Esther J.; Hou, Yang; Yan, Jinjin; Shen, Yishan – Developmental Psychology, 2020
We advance a tripartite framework of language use to encompass language skills, the practice of language skills, and the subjective experiences associated with language use among Mexican-origin adolescents who function as language brokers by translating and interpreting for their English-limited parents. Using data collected over 2 waves from a…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Translation, Mexican Americans, Spanish
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Chen, Stephen H.; Hua, Michelle; Zhou, Qing; Tao, Annie; Lee, Erica H.; Ly, Jennifer; Main, Alexandra – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Direct and indirect/mediated relations of (a) children's and parents' cultural orientations and (b) parent-child gaps in cultural orientations to children's psychological adjustment were examined in a socioeconomically diverse sample of 258 Chinese American children (age = 6-9 years) from immigrant families. Parents reported on children's and…
Descriptors: Chinese Americans, Parent Child Relationship, Language Proficiency, Immigrants
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Wong, Simpson W. L.; Chow, Bonnie Wing-Yin; Ho, Connie Suk-Han; Waye, Mary M. Y.; Bishop, Dorothy V. M. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
This twin study examined the relative contributions of genes and environment on 2nd language reading acquisition of Chinese-speaking children learning English. We examined whether specific skills-visual word recognition, receptive vocabulary, phonological awareness, phonological memory, and speech discrimination-in the 1st and 2nd languages have…
Descriptors: Twins, Chinese, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning