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Lina Abed Ibrahim – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: To avoid misdiagnosis with developmental language disorder (DLD) in bilingual children, it is recommended to evaluate both languages. However, unlike their monolingual peers, bilingual children acquire their heritage language under adverse input conditions. Focusing on Levantine Arabic, the study evaluates the clinical utility of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Native Language, Language Skills
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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Maria Kaltsa; Alexandra Prentza; Leonarda Prela; Ianthi Maria Tsimpli – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
The present paper aims to investigate the interplay of lexical and grammatical development in school-aged Greek-Albanian bilingual children by providing evidence both from majority, Greek, and heritage, Albanian. To this end, 47 8 to 10-year-old bilingual children were tested by means of expressive vocabulary tests in Greek and in Albanian, while…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Bilingual Students, Young Children
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Giguere, David; Hoff, Erika – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
In bilingual children, more so than in monolingual children, comprehension abilities exceed production abilities. While this receptive-expressive gap in bilinguals has been well documented, little is known about its development. The present study tracked growth in the Spanish and English receptive and expressive vocabularies of 52 bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Receptive Language, Expressive Language
Chikako Takahashi – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The current study investigated the nature of second language (L2) learning influence on first language (L1) production and perception by systematically examining several L1 and L2 related factors (L1:L2 relative dominance, L2 production and perception acuity, and learning context) and their effect on L1 change. It is the first of its kind in…
Descriptors: Interference (Language), Native Language, Second Language Learning, Japanese
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Rabiah Tul Adawiyah Mohamed Salleh; Bruno Di Biase; Satomi Kawaguchi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
English is undoubtedly an important language for educational and socio-economic mobility in numerous countries including Malaysia. Regardless of its importance, studies to document English language acquisition among Malaysian children acquiring English in the local context remain scarce. This normative data is imperative for syllabus-designers,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Preschool Children
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Katsarou, Dimitra; Andreou, Georgia – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2021
Children with Down syndrome (DS) present language deficits in all linguistic domains and their language development lags behind that of typically developing children. However, their receptive language skills appear to be better than their productive in all linguistic domains. Research on bilingual children with DS is limited, but has shown that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Down Syndrome, Bilingualism, Language
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Orizaba, Lorena; Gorman, Brenda K.; Fiestas, Christine E.; Bingham, Gary E.; Terry, Nicole Patton – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine narrative language samples of Spanish-speaking preschoolers to analyze changes in microstructural and macrostructural skills in their first language (L1) from fall to spring, relationships between narrative and vocabulary skills in L1, and the extent to which fall skills predict spring performance.…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Native Language
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Joanine Hester Nel; Frenette Southwood; Michelle Jennifer White – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2024
The acquisition of passives is well-studied in many languages, with evidence of crosslinguistic differences in the age at which passives are acquired. The aim of this study is to add to the existing knowledge of child acquisition of passives by providing data from Afrikaans and isiXhosa, two under-researched and typologically different languages…
Descriptors: African Languages, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Classification
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Junyi Yang; Joshua F. Lawrence; Vibeke Grøver – First Language, 2024
While it is established that parental "wh"-questions, as a high-quality language input, are associated with child language outcome, less is known about the role of children's "wh"-questions in their language development. This study examines whether children's "wh"-questions during a dinnertime conversation are…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Parent Child Relationship, Family Characteristics, Expressive Language
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Barachetti, Chiara; Majorano, Marinella; Rossi, Germano; Antolini, Elena; Zerbato, Rosanna; Lavelli, Manuela – Journal of Child Language, 2022
The relationship between first and second language in early vocabulary acquisition in bilingual children is still debated in the literature. This study compared the expressive vocabulary of 39 equivalently low-SES two-year-old bilingual children from immigrant families with different heritage languages (Romanian vs. Nigerian English) and the same…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Vocabulary Development, Romance Languages, Italian
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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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Uslu, Banu; Ersan, Ceyhun – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2020
The purpose of the present study was to examine how foreign language education may affect preschool children's native language development. The study was carried out with 70 children who were 48-60 months-old and attending a public preschool in Alanya, a district of Antalya, in Turkey. The research method of the study was Solomon Four-Group…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Preschool Children, Native Language
Joong won Lee; Alissa Wolters; Young-Suk Grace Kim – Grantee Submission, 2022
We examined the relation of morphological awareness with language and literacy skills, namely phonological awareness, orthographic awareness, vocabulary, word reading, spelling, text reading fluency, and reading comprehension. We also examined potential moderators of the relations (grade level, orthographic depth of language, receptive vs.…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Literacy, Language Skills
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Hong, Yea-Ji; Yi, Soon-Hyung – Journal of Child Language, 2019
The purpose of the current study was to examine whether oral language skills moderate the effect of Korean phonological awareness (PA) on English PA for Korean preschoolers in the initial stage of learning English as a second language. The study participants comprised 81 five- to six-year-old Korean preschoolers attending Korean-medium preschools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Phonological Awareness, English (Second Language)
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