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Reznick, J. Steven – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1990
Exploration of the usefulness of a visual preference technique for assessing word comprehension in infants demonstrated increases in comprehension from 8 to 14 and 14 to 20 months; established longitudinal stability of comprehension from 14 to 20 months; and showed a profound effect of stimulus salience and the lack of sex differences in word…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Language Acquisition, Language Research
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Wang, Min; Geva, Esther – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2003
Compared lexical and visual--orthographic processing in the spelling performance of 30 cantonese Chinese children who are English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learners to that of 33 English as a first language (L1) children. Findings are discussed in terms of in terms of early transfer of L1 literacy skills to second language literacy acquisition…
Descriptors: Cantonese, Comparative Analysis, Dictation, English (Second Language)