Metalinguistic contribution to writing competence: a study of monolingual children in China and bilingual children in Singapore
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DOI: 10.1007/s11145-018-9846-5
Abstract: This study investigated the concurrent contributions of three components of metalinguistic awareness (i.e., phonological awareness, morphological awareness, and syntactic awareness) to the writing competence of primary three English–Chinese bilingual children in Singapore (n = 390) and monolingual… read more here.
Keywords: writing competence; awareness; bilingual children; children singapore ... See more keywords
The association of the home literacy environment and parental reading beliefs with oral language growth trajectories of Spanish-English bilingual children
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2021.07.001
Abstract: Abstract Purpose This study examines the extent to which the Home Literacy Environment (HLE) as measured by reading habits and resources, library use, and subscriptions or materials, as well as parental reading beliefs predict both… read more here.
Keywords: spanish english; parental reading; bilingual children; reading beliefs ... See more keywords
Capitalizing on cross-language similarities in intervention with bilingual children.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2020.106004
Abstract: PURPOSE This study examined the effects of a vocabulary intervention for bilingual children that was conducted in children's first language, Spanish, and included explicit instruction on cognates. We measured effects in terms of change from… read more here.
Keywords: language; cross language; bilingual children; intervention bilingual ... See more keywords
Bilingual children's social preferences hinge on accent.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2017.07.005
Abstract: Past research finds that monolingual and bilingual children prefer native speakers to individuals who speak in unfamiliar foreign languages or accents. Do children in bilingual contexts socially distinguish among familiar languages and accents and, if… read more here.
Keywords: social preferences; accent; preferences based; accented english ... See more keywords
Cognate facilitation in Frisian-Dutch bilingual children's sentence reading: An eye-tracking study.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104699
Abstract: Bilingual adults are faster in reading cognates than in reading non-cognates in both their first language (L1) and second language (L2). This cognate effect has been shown to be gradual: recognition was facilitated when words… read more here.
Keywords: cognate facilitation; reading; bilingual children; children sentence ... See more keywords
The acquisition of lexical tones by Cantonese–English bilingual children
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DOI: 10.1017/s0305000918000260
Abstract: Abstract Previous studies on bilingual children found intact tonal development at the initial stages of interaction between Cantonese and English in successive bilingual children, whereas children exposed to both languages from birth have not been… read more here.
Keywords: acquisition lexical; bilingual children; tones cantonese; cantonese english ... See more keywords
Do parents provide a helping hand to vocabulary development in bilingual children?
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DOI: 10.1017/s0305000918000594
Abstract: Abstract Monolingual children identify referents uniquely in gesture before they do so with words, and parents translate these gestures into words. Children benefit from these translations, acquiring the words that their parents translated earlier than… read more here.
Keywords: development bilingual; bilingual children; vocabulary development; monolingual children ... See more keywords
Why jumped is so difficult: tense/aspect marking in Mandarin-English bilingual children.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0305000920000082
Abstract: Learning to mark for tense in a second language is notoriously difficult for speakers of a tenseless language like Chinese. In this study we test two reasons for these difficulties in Chinese-English sequential bilingual children:… read more here.
Keywords: mandarin english; bilingual children; aspect marker; english bilingual ... See more keywords
Lexical restructuring stimulates phonological awareness among emerging English-French bilingual children's literacy.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0305000922000083
Abstract: This longitudinal study investigated how lexical restructuring can stimulate emerging bilingual children's phonological awareness in their first (L1) and second (L2) languages. Sixty-two English (L1) - French (L2) bilingual children (Mage = 75.7 months, SD… read more here.
Keywords: phonological awareness; english french; bilingual children; lexical restructuring ... See more keywords
Online processing of which-questions in bilingual children: Evidence from eye-tracking.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0305000922000253
Abstract: An emergent debate surrounds the nature of language processing in bilingual children as an extension of broader questions about their morphosyntactic development in comparison to monolinguals, with the picture so far being nuanced. This paper… read more here.
Keywords: processing questions; children evidence; bilingual children; online processing ... See more keywords
Bilingualism is associated with less racial bias in preschool children.
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DOI: 10.1037/dev0000905
Abstract: Bilingual children have been shown to differ from monolingual children in several domains of human cognition. Comparatively few studies have investigated social-interactional processes in bilingual populations. Here, we investigated whether monolingual and bilingual children demonstrate… read more here.
Keywords: english chinese; bilingual children; racial bias; bias ... See more keywords