Reading comprehension and strategy use: Comparing bilingual children to their monolingual peers and to bilingual adults [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The current study investigated the predictive ability of language knowledge and reported strategy use on reading comprehension performance in English-speaking monolingual and bilingual students.
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A Comparative Analysis of Language Skills and Parent–Child Interactions in Monolingual and Bilingual Children Born Preterm [PDF]
LanguagesChildren born preterm are at an elevated risk of language delays compared to children born full-term. However, there is a dearth of research investigating language outcomes in premature children exposed to more than one language.
Kimberly Crespo +3 more
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A new dynamic word learning task to diagnose language disorder in French-speaking monolingual and bilingual children [PDF]
Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, 2023 Tools to effectively assess the language performance of bilingual children are lacking. Static tests assessing vocabulary knowledge (e.g., naming task) are not appropriate for testing bilingual children due to different types of bias. Alternative methods
Mélodie Matrat +2 more
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Neural substrates of L2-L1 transfer effects on phonological awareness in young Chinese-English bilingual children [PDF]
NeuroImageThe growing trend of bilingual education between Chinese and English has contributed to a rise in the number of early bilingual children, who were exposed to L2 prior to formal language instruction of L1.
Jia-Wei Kou +7 more
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11791 Gray matter volume differences in bilingual compared to monolingual children
Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2021 IMPACT: This study examines gray matter volume differences resulting from the bilingual experience in children and adults allowing us to better understand the brains of over half of the world’s population that speaks more than one language.
Alison K. Schug +3 more
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Languages, 2021 Bilingual children often experience difficulties with inflectional morphology. The aim of this longitudinal study was to investigate how regularity of inflection in combination with verbal short-term and working memory (VSTM, VWM) influences bilingual ...
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Working Memory Skills in DLD: Does Bilingualism Make a Difference?
Languages, 2022 Recent studies have reported that several cognitive domains benefit from bilingualism, including working memory. The aim of the present study is to specifically explore the effects of bilingual experience on different functions of working memory in ...
Eva Wimmer, Anna-Lena Scherger
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Does Language Make a Difference? A Study of Language Dominance and Inhibitory Control
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Although extensive research has been done to compare monolingual and bilingual children’s executive function, there are fewer studies that look at the relation between bilingual children’s languages and executive function.
Ashley Marie Salwei +1 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 According to usage-based theories, children initially acquire surface-level constructions and then abstract representations. If so, bilingual children might show lags relative to monolingual children early in acquisition, but not later on, once they rely
Elena Nicoladis, Sera Sajeev
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An Investigation into 4-5 Year-Old Monolingual and Bilingual Children: A Case of Comprehension and Application of Metaphorical Expressions [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2019 Whereas Persian bilingual children in kindergartens make their best attempts to properly apply language rules, they cannot be as successful in understanding and applying metaphorical phrases as Persian monolingual children.
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