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Sundari, Hanna; Febriyanti, Rina Husnaini – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2020
Development of child language is tremendously complex, remarkable and wondrous. In a second language acquisition context, a child can acquire his second language in either acquiring both languages at the same time or learning the second language after mastering the first one. This present research is concerned to describe the syntactical…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Morphemes
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Pladevall-Ballester, Elisabet – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2016
Given that L1A of subject properties in non-null subject languages emerges later than that of null subject languages, this study aims at determining to what extent the same pattern of acquisition is observed in early child L2A in bilingual immersion settings where English and Spanish are both source and target languages. Using an elicited oral…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Child Language, Bilingualism
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Bedore, Lisa M.; Pena, Elizabeth D.; Joyner, Debbie; Macken, Candace – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2011
Educators of young children, including speech-language pathologists, are often uncertain as to how to effectively work with children from diverse backgrounds because they do not know enough about cultural and linguistic diversity and its impact on language development. The current study helps to address this gap by examining the validity of parent…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Child Language, Speech Language Pathology, Parent Attitudes
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Perez-Leroux, Ana T.; Pirvulescu, Mihaela; Roberge, Yves – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2009
Where do the two languages of the bilingual child interact? The literature has debated whether bilingual children have delays in the acquisition of direct objects. The variety of methods and languages involved have prevented clear conclusions. In a transitivity-based approach, null objects are a default structural possibility, present in all…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, French, Bilingualism, Child Language
Bizzarri, Helen Herbig – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1978
This study demonstrates the influence of a visit to the United States on the communicative competence in English of a bilingual child who lives in Rome, Italy, with his American mother and Italian father. (CFM)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language)
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Light, Timothy – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1977
The subject of this article is a Cantonese-speaking infant who arrived in the U.S. at 16 months. At 19 months, three striking anomalies marked her Cantonese speech. These anomalies are discussed; it is proposed that their origin may have been her new English-speaking environment. (CHK)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cantonese, Child Development, Child Language
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Kessler, Carolyn – Language Learning, 1972
Paper presented at the convention of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Washington, D.C., February 1972. (RS)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Deep Structure, English (Second Language)
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Dulay, Heidi; Burt, Marina – Language Learning, 1974
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language)
Wald, Benji – 1984
A study of the syntactic development of discourse in and after adolescence among fluent English speakers in a bilingual community of East Los Angeles focused on subordinate devices not observed until adolescence, such as the relative clause using "which" and clauses using "even though/although." Discourse analysis of these…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Bilingualism, Child Language, Discourse Analysis
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Whong-Barr, Melinda; Schwartz, Bonnie D. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2002
Compares the acquisition of the English to- and for-dative alternation by native-speaking English, Japanese, and Korean children. Investigates whether second language learners (L2) like native language learners overextend the double-object variant and whether L2 learners, like L2 adults, transfer properties of the native language grammar.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Grammar
Calasso, M. G.; Garau, S. Zerad – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1978
This study analyzes two versions of "Little Red Riding Hood" as told by a bilingual three-year-old girl in English. (CFM)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Childrens Literature, Discourse Analysis
Wode, Henning – 1978
Several recent reports on the untutored second language acquisition of English have suggested that the same developmental sequence holds for the acquisition of the interrogative structures irrespective of whether English is acquired as a first language (L1) or a second language (L2). These studies have been conducted within the Klima & Bellugi…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, English, English (Second Language)
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Wode, H.; And Others – Language Learning, 1978
Discusses the shortcomings of the morpheme order approach in first and second language acquisition research, and proposes instead the notion of developmental sequence, drawing on examples from data on four German children learning English naturalistically. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, English (Second Language), German, Language Acquisition
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Tomiyama, Machiko – Applied Linguistics, 2000
Examines the second stage of natural second language attrition in the first language environment observed in a Japanese male returnee child. The subject spent 7 years in the United States, was 8-years-old when he returned, and was highly proficient in English. The second stage is characterized by a period of change in syntax and morphology,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Stavans, Anat; Swisher, Virginia – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2006
The present study discusses and describes codeswitches produced by two trilingual children acquiring English, Spanish and Hebrew simultaneously from birth. Data were collected regularly over a period of 20 months (from age 2;6 to 4;2 for M and from age 5;5 to 7;1 for E), in naturalistic tape-recorded sessions. Codeswitches drawn from…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Multilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning
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