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Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"bilingual children"”.
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Sentence Comprehension in Monolingual and Bilingual Children
Abstract Bilingual children outperform monolingual children on non-linguistic tasks that tap executive function. It still unknown whether the enhancement of executive functioning found for bilingual children improves complex linguistic comprehension. The present study examined possible differences …
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Stop production in Spanish-English bilingual children
… t, k, b, d, g]) are relatively early sounds in children’s acquisition and have specific features that can be measured and compared crosslinguistically. Spanish voiceless stops have shorter voice onset time values than English voiceless stops, and Spanish voiced stops vary allophonically to …
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Myelomeningocele and the Neuropsychological Functioning of Bilingual Children
… the brain and spinal cord of millions of children. Children of Hispanic background have the highest prevalence rate of this condition. Despite this fact, research that examines the cognitive profiles of Hispanic children with myelomeningocele is limited. A review on bilingualism and …
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A study of bilingual children reading in a second language.
This research tested the hypothesis that bilingual children, using their second language and matched with monolingual children on a word recognition test, may differ significantly from them in the miscues made when reading and in attitudes to reading. Some prior research has indicated ethnic …
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The Relationship Between Cognitive And Linguistic Abilities In Bilingual Children
… between cognitive and linguistic abilities in bilingual children (English – Spanish). In particular, we measured the effect of attentional control (the ability to maintain an operative goal, and goal-relevant information, in the face of distraction) and educational experience (amount of time …
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Experiences of Parents of Emergent Bilingual Children Facing Autism Inquiry
Parents are unique experts on their children and their developmental environment. This is especially the case of emergent bilingual children’s parents, who are promising untapped sources of knowledge and wisdom about their children’s language learning, social communication, and development. …
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The Development of Language and Reading Skills in Emergent Bilingual Children
… literacy development in English-Hebrew emerging bilinguals. During their senior kindergarten year, one group of children participated in a bilingual English-Hebrew program (“early” group; n = 17) while another participated in an English-language program with minimal Hebrew instruction (“late” …
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Metacognitive development and the disambiguation effect in monolingual and bilingual children
Research suggests that children are only able to flexibly apply more than one label (e.g. mouse and animal) in one situation with one conversational partner after they pass standard false belief tasks. Both abilities have been attributed to the understanding of perspective. The aim of the studies …
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The developmental progression of cognitive-linguistic skills in emergent bilingual children
… development in monolingual, English speaking children, very little research has been conducted regarding the problems encountered by children learning English as an additional language (EAL). Recent political and educational concerns have been the educational under-achievement of minority …
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Heritage language maintenance: a Mexican American mother's success with raising bilingual children
… Mexican-American single mother who raised her children bilingually in the United States, creating diglossia—with Spanish spoken at home and church and English spoken in school and community as recommended by Hakuta and others. Trained as a teacher in Mexico, this mother brought her children to …
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The use of word-learning principles in young monolingual and bilingual children
… been demonstrated in toddlers and preschool-aged children. Studies of mutual exclusivity in bilingual children over 3.5 years have generally found a tendency to honour the principle within languages, but not across languages. To date, younger bilinguals' adherence to this principle has not been …
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Factors Influencing the English Reading Test Performance of Spanish-English Bilingual Children
… test performance of 51 Spanish-speaking Hispanic children at the fifth- and sixth-grade levels as compared to that of 53 Anglo children enrolled in the same classrooms. The role of reading tests in the assessment and placement of children makes it important to understand what such tests reveal …
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The rich languaging practices of simultanous bilingual children: Linguistic ability, agency, and flexibility
There is a lack of research on bilingualism and biliteracy, specifically on simultaneous bilingual children. The present study seeks to provide research on the literacy practices of simultaneous bilingual prekindergarten and kindergarten children as they begin their formal schooling. The study …
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AN ANALYSIS OF CODE SWITCHING EVENTS IN TYPICALLY DEVELOPING SPANISH-ENGLISH BILINGUAL CHILDREN
… of 14 typically-developing Spanish-English bilingual preschool-aged children. CS occurred primarily when the children spoke in Spanish. We investigated code-switched events, vocabulary measures, and disfluencies to better understand if children utilize code-switching to fill in lexical gaps …
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Differences in IQ and Memory of Monolingual/Bilingual Children who Suffered a TBI
… occurs at an average rate of 180 per 100,000 children who are hospitalized for head injury within the United States (Schwartz et al., 2003). Bilinguals are a large proportion of the population living in the United States and in Southern California, particularly. If children who are bilingual …
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The effect of different early support programmes on Maltese bilingual children : three case studies
… early support programmes on three year 2 Maltese bilingual children who are experiencing specific learning difficulties. Providing adequate support to the Maltese bilingual child has been an ongoing challenge and this research suggests that further investigation is needed on how to provide an …
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Developmental patterns of Spanish grammatical morphemes and mean length of utterance in bilingual children
… development in Spanish for Spanish-English bilingual children ages 4;0-7;6. This study uses secondary data analysis based on two existing datasets. Participants included 334 Spanish-English bilingual children that were recruited from school districts in Texas, Utah, and Pennsylvania. …
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An ecological approach to researching biliteracy development of Indonesian bilingual children in Australian social contexts
… 2004) and Cummins‟ hypothesis of simultaneously bilingual child learning both languages (1984a, 1996). As no longitudinal study of biliteracy development in English and Indonesian has been conducted to date, this particular research is the first investigation of this process and provides an …
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Effects of Early English Education on Phonological Awareness and Language Development of Taiwanese Bilingual Children
… and ethnographic findings have implications for bilingual research, education, and testing practice with bilingual children.
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