Descriptor
| Child Language | 8 |
| Foreign Countries | 8 |
| Interlanguage | 8 |
| Bilingualism | 4 |
| Contrastive Linguistics | 4 |
| Language Research | 4 |
| Language Role | 4 |
| Linguistic Theory | 4 |
| English (Second Language) | 3 |
| Language Acquisition | 3 |
| Morphology (Languages) | 3 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
| Journal of Child Language | 1 |
| System | 1 |
Author
| Auger, Julie | 1 |
| Bassano, Dominique | 1 |
| Dittmar, Norbert, Ed. | 1 |
| Eme, Elsa | 1 |
| Foster, Lois | 1 |
| Mackey, Alison | 1 |
| Maillochon, Isabelle | 1 |
| Mathuna, Liam Mac | 1 |
| Oliver, Rhonda | 1 |
| Pickering, Michael | 1 |
| Rado, Marta | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Publication Type
| Reports - Research | 5 |
| Collected Works - General | 2 |
| Collected Works - Proceedings | 2 |
| Journal Articles | 2 |
| Books | 1 |
| Speeches/Meeting Papers | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewedBassano, Dominique; Maillochon, Isabelle; Eme, Elsa – Journal of Child Language, 1998
Two studies investigated developmental changes, and inter-linguistic and inter-individual variations, in the expansion and composition of young French children's early lexicons. Results indicated that lexical productivity strongly increased with age, whereas lexical diversity showed little developmental progression. Inter-individual variability in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Child Language, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedMackey, Alison; Oliver, Rhonda – System, 2002
Explored effects of interactional feedback on children's second language (L2) development in a prettest/posttest design. Child learners carried out communicative tasks that provided contexts for targeted forms and interactional feedback to occur. An experimental group received interactional feedback in response to non-targetlike production of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Children, English (Second Language)
Download full textPickering, Michael – 1992
A case study investigated the emergence of language and language concepts in a bilingual child, a girl aged 16 months to 6 years, 7 months. Observations were made by the child's parents and relatives in the child's home where the mother spoke Finnish and the father English. The report summarizes developments in phonology, morphology, word-level…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case Studies, Child Language, Concept Formation
Selinker, Larry – 1988
Six papers on interlanguage are presented. The first, "Language Transfer," experimentally tests Robert Lado's contrastive analysis principles on the transfer of language skills to second language acquisition. The second paper, called "Interlanguage," builds on this work in discussing the structured nature of interlanguage and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Rado, Marta; Foster, Lois – 1985
A study of some features of the language usage of nonnative English speakers focused on global communicative competence and the use of text-building devices. Subjects were the primary-school-age children of eight native Italian-, Greek-, and Macedonian-speaking migrant parents and a matched set of native-English-speaking classmates. The language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Connected Discourse
Dittmar, Norbert, Ed.; And Others – 1978
Papers included in this volume are: "The Muted Voice of Immigrant Workers;""The Situation of Foreign Workers in Sweden"; "Situation of Foreign Workers in the Federal Republic of Germany"; "Teaching German to Immigrant Children"; "Using Language Typology in Contrastive Studies"; "On Determining…
Descriptors: Adults, Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Classification
Auger, Julie; Rose, Yvan – 1997
Essays on lexicon and vocabulary development, all in French, address these topics: bilingual lexicon in the context of translation; lexical and conceptual representation in bilinguals; pronouns in "existential" constructions in French and English; configurational functions within grammar; Gustaf Stern's diachronic semantic schema; the…
Descriptors: American Indians, Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)
Mathuna, Liam Mac; Singleton, David – 1984
Papers presented at the symposium on the relationship between language and culture include, in addition to an opening adress: "Sociosemiotics Across Cultures" (Wolfgang Kuhlwein); "Translation Across Languages or Across Cultures?" (Albrecht Neubert); "Grammatical Categories Across Cultures" (Olga Tomic); "On…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Children, Contrastive Linguistics
