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Perla B. Gámez; Ö. Ece Demir-Lira; Paola Pinzón-Henao – Child Development, 2025
This longitudinal study (data collected from 2019 to 2023) examines the relation between Spanish-English bilingual Latino toddlers' (n=46; F=22; M=24) early gesture production (Mage=18.67 months; SD[subscript age]=1.02) and later language skills (M[subscript age]=36.87 months; SD[subscript age]=0.81). Video recordings at child-age 18-months…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Spanish
Benjamin D. Zinszer; Joelle Hannon; Anqi Hu; Aya Élise Kouadio; Hermann Akpé; Fabrice Tanoh; Madeleine Wang; Zhenghan Qi; Kaja Jasinska – Developmental Science, 2024
Studies of non-linguistic statistical learning (SL) have often linked performance in SL tasks with differences in language outcomes. Most of these studies have focused on Western and high-income educational contexts, but children worldwide learn in radically different educational systems and communities, and often in a second language. In the west…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Grade 5
Zaretsky, Eugen; Lange, Benjamin P.; Hey, Christiane – Language Learning and Development, 2023
Non-word repetition tasks are widely used to assess phonological short-term memory (PSTM). Results of previous research on the performance of monolingual and bilingual children in PSTM tasks are inconclusive. Although in some studies bilinguals did outperform monolinguals in the repetition of non-words, most studies reported comparatively weak…
Descriptors: Repetition, Phonological Awareness, Short Term Memory, Bilingualism
Lara-Stephanie Krause-Alzaidi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The practices of sorting things out and bringing things together, which I summarise under the term relanguaging, sit between fluid, situated languaging practices and the administrative standard grid in education that relies on bounded, named languages. Relanguaging, I argue, was invisible to socio- and applied linguists' analytical vision because…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
van Koert, Margreet; Leona, Nihayra; Rispens, Judith; Tijms, Jurgen; van der Molen, Maurits; Grunberg, Hernán Labbé; Snellings, Patrick – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
Second language proficiency may be related to first language acquisition (Ganschow & Sparks, 1991), but relatively little is known about the relation between first and second language grammatical proficiency in primary school children who are in their first stages of foreign language learning. This study aims to determine whether differences…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Grammar, Grade 4
Emma Libersky; Caitlyn Slawny; Margarita Kaushanskaya – Infant and Child Development, 2025
Codeswitching is a common feature of bilingual language practices, yet its impact on word learning is poorly understood. Critically, processing costs associated with codeswitching may extend to learning. Moreover, verbs tend to be more difficult to learn than nouns, and the challenges of learning verbs could compound with processing costs…
Descriptors: Nouns, Verbs, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development
Huseyin Kyuchuk; Anar Fazylzhanova; Madina Abayeva; Aliya Nazarova; Quwatbek Duysen; Aidana Makhambetova; Shakhlo Kazakbayeva; Talshyn Chukayeva; Jill de Villiers – Intercultural Education, 2025
The research report describes the ability of Kazakh preschool children to tell narratives relating to mental states, and the connection with theory of mind tasks about false beliefs. Three groups of preschool children (N = 29; 3-, 4-, and 5- year-olds) from the city of Almaty were tested in the Kazakh language. The results show very high…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Preschool Children
Chondrogianni, Vicky – Journal of Child Language, 2023
Paradis' (2023) keynote article is a timely documentation of the ongoing shift in focus within childhood bilingualism research from investigating the factors that modulate majority or second language (ML/L2) attainment (Chondrogianni & Marinis, 2011) to understanding the sources of variation that lead to minority heritage language (HL)…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Children, Learning Processes, Language Skills
Younglong Kim – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The English proficiency gap is one of the most significant problems for young students in South Korea as it widens inequality by limiting opportunities for their future. One unique learning center, located in the under resourced area in South Korea, has been available at cost-free to enhance language development. This qualitative case study aims…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Skills
Albogami, Mohammed Madi – Arab World English Journal, 2022
The unprecedented time of COVID-19 has called schools and educators worldwide to think of transferring education from face-to-face based to become more digital oriented. This transformation has pros and cons. Scholars in the field are questioning investigating the challenges that online learning entails; however, one of the issues still not fully…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Skills
Mohamed A. Mekheimer – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
This study explored the efficacy of video podcasts (VODcasts) in fostering whole-language learning among college EFL students. Employing a quasi-experimental design with pre-tests, post-tests, and a control group, the research compared the effects of a one-year remedial instruction program. The experimental group received instruction incorporating…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Technology Uses in Education
L. Sparks, Richard; S. Dale, Philip; M. Patton, Jon – Modern Language Journal, 2023
Although most children learn to communicate in their first language (L1), there is normal and expected variation in their rate of acquisition across all components of the language system. Until recently, most second language acquisition and second language (L2) researchers have assumed that individual differences (IDs) in L1 acquisition are small…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Correlation, Secondary School Students
Wijaya, Kristian Florensio – Journal of English Teaching, 2022
With the rapid globalization occurring all around the globe, educational landscapes also underwent some dramatic shifts. One of those notable shifts is the rapid transition from teacher to student-centered approach. In Indonesian EFL productive language learning contexts; speaking and writing, problem-based learning activities can enable learners…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Skills
Carla Kekejian; Robert Kraemer; Chelsea Sommer; Molly Mcfadden; Chih-Ching Yeh – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
The amount of language input bilingual children receive influences their language acquisition. This three-year quasi-longitudinal study determined the extent home language input influences measures of expressive and receptive English vocabulary among Spanish-English school-age bilingual children. The study also determined whether a relationship…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Family Environment, Educational Environment, Language Usage
Kittichai Nilubol; Pragasit Sitthitikul – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2023
Gamification is a controversial topic in the field of education, with both proponents and opponents. However, what exactly gamification is and why it has become popular are worth exploring. This academic article first defines the terms "game" and "gamification" in order to differentiate them. Next, the article provides core…
Descriptors: Gamification, Teaching Methods, Games, Game Based Learning