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Sofia Hein Machado; Alex Sweeney; Arturo E. Hernandez; Ferenc Bunta – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate how the amount of home language use between the primary caregiver and bilingual Spanish- and English-speaking children with hearing loss who use cochlear implants (CIs) versus their bilingual age-matched peers with normal hearing (NH) can impact speech outcomes in the home language. Method:…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Family Environment, Bilingualism, Spanish Speaking
Ling Wang; Kendall King – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Governmental language policies in China have varied across recent decades, including the intensive promotion of Mandarin as a language of unification and public championing of regional varieties. Concomitantly, increasing urbanisation, regional migration, and cross-linguistic marriage have led to greater use of Mandarin in private domains. Given…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Parent Attitudes
Xiaowan Zhang; Paula Winke – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
We investigated the time it takes 54,146 English learners (ELs) to attain English proficiency as they progressed from age 5 to 11 on average (Kindergarten through fifth grade in the United States). We also examine to what extent the time-to-proficiency estimate is affected by child-internal and child-external factors, including primary disability…
Descriptors: English Learners, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Elementary School Students
Erin Quirk; Natasha Hadeed; Krista Byers-Heinlein – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
Family language strategies are approaches that parents adopt for language use with their multilingual children. In bilingual contexts, these strategies influence children's language exposure and development (MacLeod et al., 2022). In the more complex context of trilingualism, how families settle on strategies and their relationship with exposure…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Multilingualism, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
Graziela N. M. Dekeyser; Calvin G. Swicegood; Orhan Agirdag – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Due to successive immigration waves, many European countries are experiencing a rise in ethnic minoritized families. In this study, we investigate how risks and resources associated with multilingualism at the individual and the family level shape minoritized children's reported happiness and whether these effects are independent of children's…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Family Environment, Psychological Patterns, Minority Groups
Benítez-Barrera, Carlos; Reiss, Lina; Majid, Marjan; Chau, Trisha; Wilson, Johanna; Rico, Erika Figueroa; Bunta, Ferenc; Raphael, Robert M.; de Diego-Lázaro, Beatriz – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: Best practices recommend promoting the use of the home language and allowing caregivers to choose the language(s) that they want to use with their child who is deaf or hard of hearing (DHH). We examined whether Spanish-speaking caregivers of children who are DHH receive professional recommendations on oral bilingualism that follow best…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Bilingualism, Oral Language
Youngjoo Seo – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Despite the unique status of English as a super-power among foreign languages in Korea, and researchers' increasing interest in Korean parents' zeal for achieving their children's early bilingualism and willingness to invest heavily in private English education outside of school, insufficient attention has been paid to the role of parental…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Parent Child Relationship, Bilingualism
Gülin Dagdeviren-Kirmizi; Kayhan Inan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
In this study, the relationship between the family language practice and the level of linguistic (in)security of adolescent Gagauz speakers is examined in the context of an endangered language. To this end, a language-use questionnaire and linguistic insecurity scale were administered to 674 participants. The questionnaire included questions…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Maintenance, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Goble, Ryan A.; Stafford, Catherine – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Drawing on research interviews conducted as part of a larger study of bilingualism, we investigated how mid-aged Latin@ migrants--a group that has received little empirical attention in applied linguistics--interpret their ongoing cultivation of their own Spanish-English bilingualism at this stage of their personal and professional lives. We…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Immigrants, Hispanic Americans, Spanish Speaking
Ju, Unhee; Cho, Eunsoo; Relyea, Jackie E.; Choi, Ina – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
This study examined the role of parents' early home language use in the English reading development of emergent bilinguals (N = 3,058) and how their relations are moderated by children's oral English language proficiency using longitudinal data from kindergarten to eighth grade (ages 6-15 years). Results from multi-group latent basis growth models…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Family Environment, Native Language, English (Second Language)
Said, Fatma F. S. – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2021
The paper describes the role parental language ideology and the home literacy environment play in heritage language (HL) literacy learning of bilingual Arabic-English-speaking children in the UK. Information about the under-reported literacy practices of Arabic-English-speaking families will enhance current knowledge about HL literacy practices…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Semitic Languages, English, Foreign Countries
Fei Tang; Raees Calafato – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2025
This article presents the findings from a study that explored how the language practices and management to which 156 students from universities in China reported being exposed at home, alongside their language beliefs, use of their entire linguistic repertoire when reading, listening, speaking, and writing at university, and emotions related to…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Family Environment, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries
Ronderos, Juliana; Castilla-Earls, Anny; Marissa Ramos, G. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
As the U.S. population who speaks a language other than English at home continues to grow, few studies have focused on the effect of parental beliefs on the importance of bilingualism have on language outcomes of their children. In this study, we surveyed families raising Spanish-English bilingual children on their beliefs concerning both…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spanish Speaking, Parent Attitudes, Predictor Variables
McLeod, Sharynne; Verdon, Sarah; Tran, Van H.; Margetson, Kate; Wang, Cen – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: The aim of this pilot feasibility study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the group VietSpeech SuperSpeech program targeting speech skills and home language maintenance via telepractice. Method: In Stage 1, using a case-control design, 30 Vietnamese-English-speaking children were assessed in English and Vietnamese, and parents…
Descriptors: Speech Skills, Native Language, Intervention, Language Maintenance
MacLeod, Andrea A. N.; Pesco, Diane – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
Given their significance in daily life and frequent inclusion in clinical and educational assessments, children's narrative abilities merit investigation. The present study examines the narratives of children acquiring an additional language, adding to the more abundant studies of monolingual children. Sixty kindergartners (mean age 68 months)…
Descriptors: Child Development, French, Kindergarten, Narration