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Deumier, Morgan – Ethics and Education, 2022
This paper invites us to reconsider our usual understanding of infancy, no longer as something that passes but as "infantia." The Latin word "infantia," which is not easy to translate, means a lack of speech, a lack of eloquence, and also infancy, babyhood, and dumbness. Drawing on Barbara Cassin's works on the untranslatables,…
Descriptors: Infants, Translation, Language Processing, Second Languages
Victoria Van Oss; Esli Struys; Piet Van Avermaet; Wendelien Vantieghem – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Early childhood professionals can act as catalysts in encouraging home language maintenance in multilingual families. However, there is a dearth of research on whether these professionals advise parents to speak their home language(s) to their offspring, and furthermore, little is known about what prompts professionals to proffer language advice.…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Self Efficacy, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
UnidosUS, 2024
Latino families should be fully supported to accomplish their goals for the bilingual development and school success of their children. Unfortunately, they often encounter misinformation and negative messages regarding early bilingual development, specifically the belief that young children are "confused" if they grow up with two…
Descriptors: Self Advocacy, Bilingualism, Hispanic Americans, Speech Therapy
Cantone, Katja F. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
The present study contributes to the field of bilingual and trilingual language acquisition by analysing four multilingual families. In each family, at least one parent is bilingual. Following research questions will be addressed: (A) "How relevant are the (amount of) input and the (kind of) parental language strategies for language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Parent Influence
Yuriko Oshima-Takane – Language Learning and Development, 2024
Using a habituation paradigm with a three-switch design, the present study investigated whether 20-month-old French-learning infants use noun and verb morphosyntactic cues to learn novel words in dynamic events differentially when both the agent and the action interpretations are possible. Of particular interest was whether infants' initial…
Descriptors: Infants, Nouns, Verbs, Language Usage
Erin Quirk; Melanie Brouillard; Alexa Ahooja; Susan Ballinger; Linda Polka; Krista Byers-Heinlein; Ruth Kircher – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Many parents express concerns for their children's multilingual development, yet little is known about the nature and strength of these concerns - especially among parents in multilingual societies. This pre-registered, questionnaire-based study addresses this gap by examining the concerns of 821 Quebec-based parents raising infants and toddlers…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism
Alexa Ahooja; Melanie Brouillard; Erin Quirk; Susan Ballinger; Linda Polka; Krista Byers-Heinlein; Ruth Kircher – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This is the first large-scale study of resources as a form of "language management" -- that is, a way of influencing children's language practices. We introduce the distinction between child-directed resources (i.e. those providing parents with opportunities to engage with their children in the languages they are transmitting) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship, Infants, Toddlers
Yuksel, Peri; Lowry, Cass; Brooks, Patricia J. – First Language, 2021
This study examined play interactions of 15 to 48-month-old children (n = 59) and their caregivers in Lazuri, a UNESCO-rated endangered South-Caucasian ancestral language, and Turkish, a dominant language supplanting Lazuri usage in the community. Child-caregiver dyads played with two toy sets (animal farm and tea set) that provided different…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Infants, Turkic Languages, Preschool Children
Wille, Beatrijs; Allen, Thomas; Van Lierde, Kristiane; Van Herreweghe, Mieke – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2020
This study addresses the topic of visual communication and early sign language acquisition in deaf children with a Flemish Sign Language (Vlaamse Gebarentaal or VGT) input. Results are obtained through a checklist focusing on sign-exposed deaf children's visual communication and early sign language acquisition: the adapted VGT Visual Communication…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Linguistic Input, Deafness, Foreign Countries
Van Oss, Victoria; Van Avermaet, Piet; Struys, Esli; Vantieghem, Wendelien – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
This study investigates Spolsky's conception of language policy as the amalgam of language beliefs, language practices and language management. To the best of our knowledge, no quantitative evidence has ever been produced for his theoretical model. The current paper addressed this void, albeit specifically in the domain of Early Childhood Care and…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Attitudes, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
Mai, Ziyin; Yip, Virginia – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Early trilingual development is an excellent testing ground for input reduction effects on acquisition outcomes. This article reports a study investigating input-outcome relations in a child Leo in Hong Kong, who was addressed to in Mandarin, Cantonese and later also in English by caretakers through 'one caretaker-one language' and 'one day-one…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, English (Second Language), Sino Tibetan Languages, Multilingualism
Orena, Adriel John; Byers-Heinlein, Krista; Polka, Linda – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: This study examined the utility of the Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) recording system for investigating the language input to bilingual infants. Method: Twenty-one French-English bilingual families with a 10-month-old infant participated in this study. Using the LENA recording system, each family contributed 3 full days of…
Descriptors: French, Bilingualism, Infants, Linguistic Input
Seker, Emrullah – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
This is a longitudinal and naturalistic study of the bilingual acquisition of English and Turkish languages simultaneously by a 28-month old Turkish infant. The emphasis is on empirical findings collected from a two-year period of observations beginning from the subject's birth and lasting until his 28-month old linguistic status. The study is…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Infants, Language Acquisition, Turkish
Harrison, Eugene; McTavish, Marianne – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2018
Children today are growing up in a digital world that is changing and advancing at an unprecedented rate. While some adults may struggle to keep up with new technological gadgets, we find our very young may be quite at ease with the use of digital technologies, even before learning to speak. This study builds on a foundation of family literacy…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Language Acquisition, Native Language
Zhou, Vanessa; Munson, Jeffrey A.; Greenson, Jessica; Hou, Yan; Rogers, Sally; Estes, Annette M. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
Little is known about outcomes of early intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder reared in bilingual homes. There are concerns that social communication deficits among children with autism spectrum disorder may reduce the developmental benefits of early intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder raised in bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Early Intervention, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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