Sources of individual differences in the dual language development of heritage bilinguals

J Paradis - Journal of Child Language, 2023 - cambridge.org
Bilingual children are a more heterogenous group than their monolingual counterparts with
respect to the sources of variation in their language learning environments, as well as the …

Contribution of vocabulary knowledge to reading comprehension among Chinese students: A meta-analysis

Y Dong, Y Tang, BWY Chow, W Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This study investigated the correlation between vocabulary knowledge and reading
comprehension. To address the correlation picture under Chinese logographical scripts, the …

Internal and external factors in heritage language acquisition: Evidence from heritage Russian in Israel, Germany, Norway, Latvia and the United Kingdom

Y Rodina, T Kupisch, N Meir, N Mitrofanova… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In this paper, we consider elicited production data (real and nonce words tasks) from five
different studies on the acquisition of grammatical gender in Heritage Russian, comparing …

Explaining individual differences in trajectories of simultaneous bilingual development: Contributions of child and environmental factors

J Lauro, C Core, E Hoff - Child Development, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Effects of child and environmental factors in moderating the course of bilingual development
were investigated using longitudinal data, from age 2.5 to 5 years, on 126 US‐born children …

Parental support strategies and motivation in aiding their children learn the English language

JV Chavez, HG Adalia, JP Alberto - Forum for Linguistic Studies, 2023 - ojs.acad-pub.com
Learning a language starts within the comfort of a home. Parent involvement in English
language teaching serves as a brilliant step towards promoting literacy and communication …

The age factor revisited: Timing in acquisition interacts with age of onset in bilingual acquisition

P Schulz, A Grimm - Frontiers in psychology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In this paper, we investigate whether timing in monolingual acquisition interacts with age of
onset and input effects in child bilingualism. Six different morpho-syntactic and semantic …

Effects of parental input quality in child heritage language acquisition

E Daskalaki, B Elma, V Chondrogianni… - Journal of Child …, 2020 - cambridge.org
This study investigates the role of parental input quality on the acquisition of Greek as a
heritage language in Western Canada. Focusing on subject use, we tested four groups of …

First and second language vocabulary affect early second language reading comprehension development

LJ Van den Bosch, E Segers… - Journal of Research in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of this study was to examine variation in early reading comprehension development
for second language (L2) readers compared with first language (L1) readers and to …

The development of English as a heritage language: The role of chronological age and age of onset of bilingualism

S Armon-Lotem, K Rose, C Altman - First Language, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This study explores typically developing bilingual children's performance in their English as
a heritage language. The aim of this study is to advance our understanding of heritage …

Using a monolingual screening test for assessing bilingual children

C Altman, E Harel, N Meir, P Iluz-Cohen… - Clinical linguistics & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Bilingual language development is different from monolingual language development. The
lack of appropriate assessment tools geared to the bilingual population has led to inaccurate …