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Direct linkBlom, Elma – Language Learning, 2019
This study investigated the influence of cognitive ability on bilingual children's vocabulary development in both their languages. Sixty-nine bilingual immigrant children participated, with data collected at three annual intervals. At Time 1, the participants were 5 or 6 years old. Receptive vocabulary was tested in the minority (Turkish, Tarifit)…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Receptive Language
Farnia, Fataneh; Geva, Esther – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2019
Research involving monolinguals has demonstrated that language impairment can be noticed in the early years and tends to persist into adolescence. More recently, research has begun to address the challenges of identifying and treating Developmental Language Disorders (DLD) in English Language Learners (ELLs). Developmental patterns of DLD are not…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities, Monolingualism, English
Ebert, Susanne; Lockl, Kathrin; Weinert, Sabine; Anders, Yvonne; Kluczniok, Katharina; Rossbach, Hans-Gunther – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2013
Competency in society's lingua franca plays a major role in the emergence of social disparities within education. Therefore, the present longitudinal study investigates vocabulary development and its predictors in preschool years. We focus on whether internal (phonological working memory) and external variables (preschool and home learning…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children, Short Term Memory
Engel de Abreu, Pascale M. J.; Baldassi, Martine; Puglisi, Marina L.; Befi-Lopes, Debora M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: In this study, the authors explored the impact of test language and cultural status on vocabulary and working memory performance in multilingual language-minority children. Method: Twenty 7-year-old Portuguese-speaking immigrant children living in Luxembourg completed several assessments of first (L1)- and second-language (L2) vocabulary…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cross Cultural Studies, Verbal Ability, Short Term Memory
August, Diane, Ed.; Shanahan, Timothy, Ed. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006
Teaching language-minority students to read and write well in English is an urgent challenge in the nation's K-12 schools. Literacy in English is essential to achievement in every academic subject-and to educational and economic opportunities beyond schooling. Compounding this challenge are increasing numbers and diversity of language-minority…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Language Minorities, Elementary Secondary Education, At Risk Students
