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Measuring Bilingual Children's Receptive Vocabularies
Child Development, 1992Receptive vocabulary of Hispanic children in Miami was tested in both English and Spanish with complementary standardized tests, the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT-R) and the Test de Vocabulario en Imágenes Peabody (TVIP-H). 105 bilingual first graders, of middle to high socioeconomic status relative to national norms, were divided according to ...
V M, Umbel +3 more
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Early Years Educator, 2012
Working with bilingual young children in an early years setting provides many challenges for both staff and family members, but it also offers plenty of real opportunities for wider learning and development.
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Working with bilingual young children in an early years setting provides many challenges for both staff and family members, but it also offers plenty of real opportunities for wider learning and development.
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Directional Preferences of Bilingual Children
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1983Effects of simultaneous acquisition of differential reading and writing habits (in English and Hebrew) on directional preferences were investigated for 72 bilingual children in Grades 1 to 6. The children reproduced series of single and multiple stimuli; horizontal directions of their responses were recorded.
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Bilingual children’s gesture use
Gesture, 2011Previous studies have shown that bilinguals use more manual gestures than monolinguals (Pika et al., 2006; Nicoladis et al., 2009), suggesting that gestures may facilitate lexical retrieval or may reduce the cognitive load on working memory during speech production. In this study, we tested the generalizability of these findings by comparing the use of
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Assent of School-Age Bilingual Children
Western Journal of Nursing Research, 2007This article discusses the issue of assent of school-age bilingual children to participate in a research study. The article reviews cognitive, cultural, and linguistic factors influencing verbal and nonverbal concept formation in bilingual children.
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Verbal Working Memory in Bilingual Children
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2004The present study compared the performance of 44 Latino children on the Competing Language Processing Task (CLPT; C. Gaulin & T. Campbell, 1994) and the Dual Processing Comprehension Task (DPCT; S. Ellis Weismer, 1996). First, it was of interest to know if there were significant differences between children with and without bilingual proficiency on
Vera F, Gutiérrez-Clellen +2 more
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Fast mapping by bilingual preschool children
Journal of Child Language, 2008ABSTRACTPrevious studies show that young monolingual children's ability to ‘fast map’ new word forms is closely associated with both their age and existing vocabulary knowledge. In this study we investigate potential relationships between age, fast mapping skills and existing vocabulary knowledge in both languages of developing bilingual preschool ...
Pui Fong, Kan, Kathryn, Kohnert
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Acta Paediatrica, 2002
In this study two groups of children were compared, 192 bilingual and 246 monolingual, referred over a 12‐mo period to University Hospital in Malmo for suspected language impairment. Compared with monolingual children, bilingual children ran a significantly lower risk (RR = 0.76, p < 0.0001) of being referred by a child health centre, and a ...
E K, Salameh +3 more
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In this study two groups of children were compared, 192 bilingual and 246 monolingual, referred over a 12‐mo period to University Hospital in Malmo for suspected language impairment. Compared with monolingual children, bilingual children ran a significantly lower risk (RR = 0.76, p < 0.0001) of being referred by a child health centre, and a ...
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2019
In 1982–83, the author and his family spent a sabbatical year in French-speaking Switzerland, and observed their English-speaking children become bilingual. The author describes how this took place, and how each boy developed a different strategy to do so.
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In 1982–83, the author and his family spent a sabbatical year in French-speaking Switzerland, and observed their English-speaking children become bilingual. The author describes how this took place, and how each boy developed a different strategy to do so.
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