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Shoba S. Meera; Divya Swaminathan; Sri Ranjani Venkata Murali; Reny Raju; Malavi Srikar; Sahana Shyam Sundar; Senthil Amudhan; Alejandrina Cristia; Rahul Pawar; Achuth Rao; Prathyusha P. Vasuki; Shree Volme; Ashok Mysore – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: The Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) technology uses automated speech processing (ASP) algorithms to estimate counts such as total adult words and child vocalizations, which helps understand children's early language environment. This ASP has been validated in North American English and other languages in predominantly monolingual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Adults, Speech Communication
Ily Hollebeke – Language Policy, 2024
The dynamic nature of multilingual families and their language policies has been touched upon by numerous studies. Adding to the field, the present study assesses the stability of family language policy in a standardised and quantitative manner. To this end, a linguistically heterogenous sample consisting of 488 multilingual families raising young…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Family Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Beliefs
Paul Okyere Omane; Titia Benders; Natalie Boll-Avetisyan – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Infants' preference for vowelharmony (VH, a phonotactic constraint that requires vowels in a word to be featurally similar) is thought to be language-specific: Monolingual infants learning VH languages show a listening preference for VH patterns by 6 months of age, while those learning non-VH languages do not (Gonzalez-Gomez et al., 2019; Van…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Child Language, Language Acquisition
Simthembile Xeketwana; Nobesuthu Xeketwana; Christine Anthonissen – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2025
Background: This study explores how family language policies (FLPs) in multilingual homes where isiXhosa is the primary language influence caregiver choices regarding children's language development and education. Objectives: The study aims to give insight on how non-nuclear family structures in a selected sample of Western Cape families are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Language Usage, Language Planning
Kwon, Jungmin – Teachers College Press, 2022
This book provides targeted suggestions that educators can use to ensure successful teaching and learning with today's growing population of transnational, multilingual students. The text offers insights based on the author's observations, interactions, and interviews with second-generation immigrant children, their families, and their teachers in…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Children, Multilingualism, Elementary School Students
Ragnar Arntzen; Gisela Håkansson – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This article examines multilingual language use in two groups of children, one group at a state school, and one at a private IB school. The IB school has earlier been assumed to reflect an 'elite' multilingualism. Three research questions are posed: to what extent is the children's language use multilingual, what are their typological profiles,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Children, Language Usage, Foreign Countries
Cristia, Alejandrina; Gautheron, Lucas; Colleran, Heidi – Developmental Science, 2023
What are the vocal experiences of children growing up on Malakula island, Vanuatu, where multilingualism is the norm? Long-form audio-recordings captured spontaneous speech behavior by, and around, 38 children (5-33 months, 23 girls) from 11 villages. Automated analyses revealed most children's vocal input came from female adults and other…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Child Language, Infant Behavior
Zacharias, Sally – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2022
The aim of this study is to set out to explore how children living in Polish-English transnational families in the UK develop "symbolic competence" and "symbolic power" in home settings. By focusing on the children's use of metaphor in family discourse when talking about the Moon, from a cognitive discursive perspective, this…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Family Environment, Language Usage, Immigrants
Karem, Rachel Wright; Washington, Karla N.; Crowe, Kathryn; Jenkins, Alyssa; Leon, Michelle; Kokotek, Leslie; Raisor-Becker, Lesley; Westby, Carol – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this scoping review was to identify current measures used to evaluate the language abilities of multilingual preschoolers within the framework of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health--Children and Youth Version (ICF-CY; World Health Organization, 2007). Method: This review adhered to…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Preschool Children, Semantics, Child Language
Curdt-Christiansen, Xiao Lan; Wei, Li; Hua, Zhu – Language Policy, 2023
In this study, we examine how mobility and on-going changes in sociocultural contexts impact family language policy (FLP) in the UK. Using a questionnaire and involving 470 transnational families across the UK, our study provides a descriptive analysis of different family language practices in England and establishes how attitudes influence the…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Language Usage, Language Planning, Native Language
David Ben Shannon; Abigail Hackett – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2025
In this paper, the authors report the findings of a narrative review of extant international research literature to propose a conceptual model for how young children's language is entangled with place. Educational policy, curriculum documents, and speech and language therapy assessments in England tend to frame children as placeless and treat the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Place Based Education, Child Language, Self Concept
Kidd, Evan; Garcia, Rowena – First Language, 2022
A comprehensive theory of child language acquisition requires an evidential base that is representative of the typological diversity present in the world's 7000 or so languages. However, languages are dying at an alarming rate, and the next 50 years represents the last chance we have to document acquisition in many of them. Here, we take stock of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Language Maintenance
Xinye Zhang – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation draws on both qualitative and quantitative approaches to investigate the linguistic practices of teachers and children who are learning Mandarin Chinese as a Heritage Language (CHL) in two dual immersion preschools in California. CHL children have been interpreted as novice members in local speech communities who actively explore…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Variation
Choi, Jayoung – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2019
Increased international marriages and transnational mobility have prompted more children to grow up learning more than two languages simultaneously. However, despite well-known benefits of multilingualism, helping a growing number of trilingual children to reach their full potential has been challenging in the US, as prevalent monolingual policies…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Child Language, Bilingual Students, Multilingualism
Werdiningsih, Dyah – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2018
The phenomenon of language choice undergone by children is a form of social behaviour formed by individual behaviour that refers to the patterns of culture in the community. Based on this idea, the paper examined the tendency of children's language choice, the reasons of tendency, and its influences on children's behaviour in everyday life.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Language, Bilingualism, Multilingualism