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Erin Mauffray – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigates the acquisition and maintenance of periphrastic and se-passives in second language (L2), heritage (HS), and (Spanish-dominant) native Spanish speakers (NS) by addressing: (i) How accessible are Spanish periphrastic passives (which also exist in English) and se-passives (unique to Spanish) for L2ers and HSs in production?…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Languages, Native Language, Native Speakers
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Ding, Wenjun; Yu, Guoxing – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2023
This paper examined to what extent causal explanation speaking tasks (CESTs) are cognitively appropriate for assessing young language learners' (YLLs) L2 speaking. Ninety-six YLLs (48 from Grade 4 and 6 each) in China performed two CESTs in both L1 (Chinese) and L2 (English). They also completed receptive and productive L2 vocabulary size tests.…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Language Tests, Vocabulary Development, Native Language
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Monsrud, May-Britt; Rydland, Veslemøy; Geva, Esther; Thurmann-Moe, Anne Cathrine; Halaas Lyster, Solveig-Alma – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This cross-sectional study investigated first (L1) and second (L2) language receptive and expressive vocabulary in a sample of 542 typically developing bilingual children of immigrants (age range 6-13), coming from six different L1 backgrounds in Norway. Results demonstrated that children's L1 and L2 vocabulary skills increased with age. From a…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Age Differences, Vocabulary Development, Native Language
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Monsrud, May-Britt; Rydland, Veslemøy; Geva, Esther; Lyster, Solveig-Alma Halaas – Language and Education, 2022
The sentence repetition (SR) test is considered as a promising diagnostic tool for detecting language proficiency in monolingual learners, but less is known about its potential to identify dual language learners' (DLLs) linguistic proficiency. Considering that challenges with language learning, such as developmental language disorders (DLDs), is…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Bilingualism, Monolingualism
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Pouresmaeil, Amin; Gholami, Javad – TESL-EJ, 2023
Previous studies on lexical focus on form (FonF) have mostly centred on FonF in reading with a few pre-selected lexical items. This study investigated the contribution of oral incidental FonF to developing learners' lexical knowledge in a free discussion EFL class. Incidental FonF was provided to 15 upper-intermediate learners who participated in…
Descriptors: Grammar, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Kim, Ahyoung Alicia; Chapman, Mark; West, Gordon Blaine; Zheng, Bingjie; Cranley, M. Elizabeth – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study explores how preschool educators could assess dual language learners' (DLLs) English language abilities using formative instruments in school settings. It specifically examines (1) DLLs' receptive and expressive language proficiencies measured using the instruments and (2) educators' perceived usefulness of them for informing…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, English (Second Language), Cross Cultural Studies
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Rothou, Kyriakoula M.; Tsimpli, Ianthi – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
The differences and similarities in the word recognition and reading comprehension skills of monoliterate Albanian-Greek (ML2), biliterate Albanian-Greek (BL2) and monolingual (L1) children in grades 3-6 were examined in two cross-sectional studies. Participants completed standardized and experimental tasks measuring cognitive, oral language and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Literacy, Greek, Second Language Learning
Edyburn, Kelly Leigh – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Latinx dual language learners (DLLs) are an enormous and growing student body that faces educational adversities and inequities. One of the most salient findings to emerge from decades of educational research is that DLLs who close the gap with their monolingual peers and have the best long-term academic performance are those who develop strong…
Descriptors: Spanish, Educational Policy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Chen, Stephen H.; Zhou, Qing; Uchikoshi, Yuuko – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
Though a number of language socialization processes are theorized to promote children's heritage language proficiency (HLP), little research has considered these processes in a single study and examined their prospective relations to multiple domains of HLP in school-age children. In a two-wave longitudinal study of Chinese American children of…
Descriptors: Socialization, Chinese Americans, Language Proficiency, Longitudinal Studies
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Williams, Aya Inamori; Uchikoshi, Yuuko; Bunge, Silvia A.; Zhou, Qing – Early Education and Development, 2019
This study examined the concurrent relations of English (EL) and heritage language (HL) proficiency to executive functions (EF) among low-income dual language learners (DLLs) from immigrant families. In a sample of 90 children (age = 38-70 months) from Chinese-speaking Chinese American and Spanish-speaking Mexican American families recruited from…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Receptive Language, Expressive Language
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Abbot-Smith, Kirsten; Morawska-Patera, Patrycja; Luniewska, Magdalena; Spruce, Megan; Haman, Ewa – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2018
We asked whether parental questionnaires on the heritage language proficiency of bilingual children might elucidate how proficient bilingual children are in their heritage language. We tested 20 UK-based Polish-English bilingual children between 4;5 and 5;9 years on Polish and English versions of the Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks (CLTs). These…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Parent Attitudes, Bilingualism, English
Chachula, Desiree Villarroel – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The disproportionate representation of English Language Learners (ELL) to special education is widely attributed to the difficulty in identifying a disability through a language in development. This language acquisition or language disorder question has manifested in paradoxical disproportionality patterns for the ELL population. Some…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, English Language Learners, Special Education, Identification
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Hovsepian, Alice – First Language, 2018
Four-year-old (n = 20) and five-year-old (n = 22) bilingual children were tested twice in six months on Armenian (minority language) and English (majority language) picture identification and picture naming tasks to examine receptive and expressive vocabulary growth in both languages. Parental education, Armenian/English language exposure, and…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Predictor Variables, Bilingualism, Language Minorities
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Johanna Cena; Doris Luft Baker; Edward J. Kame'enui; Scott K. Baker; Yonghan Park; Keith Smolkowski – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
This study examined the impact of a 15-min daily explicit vocabulary intervention in Spanish on expressive and receptive vocabulary knowledge and oral reading fluency in Spanish, and on language proficiency in English. Fifty Spanish-speaking English learners who received 90 min of Spanish reading instruction in an early transition model were…
Descriptors: Spanish, Intervention, Expressive Language, Receptive Language
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Gamez, Perla B.; Levine, Susan C. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
This study examined the relation between young English language learners' (ELL) native oral language skills and their language input in transitional bilingual education kindergarten classrooms. Spanish-speaking ELLs' ("n" = 101) Spanish expressive language skills were assessed using the memory for sentences and picture vocabulary…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, English Language Learners, Linguistic Input, Oral Language