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Home Literacy Environment and English Language and Literacy Skills among Chinese Young Children Who Learn English as a Second Language
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Yeung, Susanna S.; King, Ronnel B. – Reading Psychology, 2016
The present study explored the home literacy environment for Chinese ESL kindergarteners and examined the relationships between home literacy practices and language and literacy skills. Ninety Hong Kong Chinese ESL kindergarteners were assessed for English vocabulary, phonological awareness, letter knowledge and word reading. Their parents…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Expressive Language, Prediction
Acquisition of /s/-Clusters in Spanish-English Bilingual Children with Phonological Disorders
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Yavas, Mehmet – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
This study investigated the development of English two-member onset #sC clusters in Spanish-English bilingual children with phonological disorders. Data from 30 children were analysed in terms of correct and incorrect productions, implicational relationships, and possible groupings according to the sonority index of the second member of the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Prediction, Classification, English (Second Language)
Sonority and Markedness among Onset Clusters in the Interlanguage of ESL Learners.
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Eckman, Fred R.; Iverson, Gregory K. – Second Language Research, 1993
It is argued that typological markedness rather than sonority distance per se better explains second-language learners' knowledge of English clusters in syllable onsets. Further, markedness alone suffices to account for the observed interlanguage patterns. (Contains 19 references.) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Classification, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition