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A Comparative Analysis of Language Skills and Parent–Child Interactions in Monolingual and Bilingual Children Born Preterm [PDF]

open access: yesLanguages
Children 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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Neural substrates of L2-L1 transfer effects on phonological awareness in young Chinese-English bilingual children [PDF]

open access: yesNeuroImage
The 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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Structural and phonological cues for gender assignment in monolingual and bilingual children acquiring German. Experiments with real and nonce words

open access: yesGlossa, 2022
We investigate the acquisition of grammatical gender marking in German by monolingual children as well as German-Russian bilingual children who grow up in Germany as heritage speakers of Russian.
Marit Westergaard   +3 more
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Reading comprehension and strategy use: Comparing bilingual children to their monolingual peers and to bilingual adults

open access: yesFrontiers 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.
Deanna C. Friesen   +3 more
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Early Numeracy and Literacy Skills Among Monolingual and Bilingual Kindergarten Children

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Early numeracy and literacy skills are all the knowledge that children acquire spontaneously and independently before entering school and beginning formal learning.
Liat Bar, Shelley Shaul
doaj   +1 more source

What do children think of their own bilingualism? Exploring bilingual children’s attitudes and perceptions [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Bilingualism, 2021
Aims and objectives: This paper explores children’s experiences and perceptions of their own bilingualism in two contexts in Scotland, UK: a primary school with a high proportion of children using a language other than English at home; and a primary school where the language of instruction is an indigenous ...
Tracey Peace-Hughes   +5 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Crosslinguistic Influence (CLI) of Lexical Breadth and Depth in the Vocabulary of Bilingual Kindergarten Children – A Bilingual Intervention Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Introduction: Research in recent years has explored the vocabulary size (lexical breadth) of bilingual children, but less is known about the richness of bilingual word knowledge (lexical depth), and about how knowledge of words in the two languages ...
Minna Lipner   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cognitive Mechanisms of Monolingual and Bilingual Children in Monoliterate Educational Settings: Evidence From Sentence Repetition

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Sentence repetition (SR) tasks have been extensively employed to assess bilingual children’s linguistic and cognitive resources. The present study examined whether monoliterate bilingual children differ from their monolingual (and monoliterate) peers in ...
Maria Andreou   +4 more
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The acquisition of Croatian prepositional phrases by mono- and bilingual children

open access: yesStrani Jezici, 2021
Children acquire prepositional phrases later than content words during language acquisition. This paper aims to describe the acquisition of prepositional phrases in Croatian, focusing on the order of their acquisition and the influence of their ...
Gordana Hržica   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prediction in bilingual children

open access: yes, 2021
Abstract A wealth of studies has shown that more proficient monolingual speakers are better at predicting upcoming information during language comprehension. Similarly, prediction skills of adult second language (L2) speakers in their L2 have also been argued to be modulated by their L2 proficiency.
Figen Karaca   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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