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Linguistic ability and early language exposure [PDF]
Nature, 2002 For more than 100 years, the scientific and educational communities have thought that age is critical to the outcome of language learning, but whether the onset and type of language experienced during early life affects the ability to learn language is unknown.
Rachel I, Mayberry +2 more
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The role of language exposure in mediated receptive multilingualism
Lähivõrdlusi, 2021 In this study, we investigate the role of exposure to L2 Russian on comprehension of L3 Ukrainian by speakers of L1 Estonian, using the mediating knowledge of L2 Russian.
Anna Branets, Daria Bahtina
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Languages, 2021 The current study aimed at investigating the performance of bilingual children with English as an additional language (EAL) on language and literacy measures compared to monolinguals across the first four years of primary school in the U.K.
Theodora Papastefanou +2 more
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Languages, 2022 The current mixed-method study investigated two groups of Korean-speaking short-term sojourners in Australia. One group (students) was composed of learners enrolled in English training programs, whereas the other group (workers) was of learners in the ...
Jeongmin Kim +2 more
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Parental reports on the lexicon of children from diverse bilingual populations
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Parental questionnaires have been widely used to assess children’s vocabularies. The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Developmental Inventories (MB-CDI) have been adapted into over 100 languages, providing researchers with access to various languages.
Odelya Ohana +2 more
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Children, 2021 Listening narrative comprehension, according to the theoretical framework of the multicomponent model for comprehension, involves numerous skills that interact dynamically between each other and have the potential to give rise to individual differences ...
Raffaele Dicataldo, Maja Roch
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The Reflections of Language Exposure in Foreign Language Learning
Bayterek Uluslararası Akademik Araştırmalar Dergisi, 2021 Language exposure refers to the level of the learners contact with their target languages which they are learning or attempting to learn. Generally, most researchers refer language exposure to student’s practices outside the classroom which extensively impacts on their target language learning.
Sevdenur KÜÇÜKLER, Sofia SULAC
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Dual language exposure and early bilingual development [PDF]
Journal of Child Language, 2011 ABSTRACTThe extant literature includes conflicting assertions regarding the influence of bilingualism on the rate of language development. The present study compared the language development of equivalently high-SES samples of bilingually and monolingually developing children from 1 ; 10 to 2 ; 6.
Erika, Hoff +5 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Bilingual language control in production tasks with language switches is supposed to be linked to domain-general cognitive control. In the present study, we investigated the role of language dominance, measured on a continuous scale, in the relationship ...
Ruilin Wu +3 more
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Prenatal chemical exposures and child language development [PDF]
Journal of Communication Disorders, 2015 The goal of this review is to summarize the evidence that prenatal and/or early postnatal exposure to certain chemicals, both manmade (insulating materials, flame retardants, pesticides) and naturally occurring (e.g., lead, mercury), may be associated with delays or impairments in language development. We focus primarily on a subset of more extensively
Kelsey L C, Dzwilewski, Susan L, Schantz
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