Predicting language proficiency from bilingual children’s
Predicting language proficiency in bilingual children
... the children in our sample were exposed to two languages only, the amount of experience obtained in one language was inversely correlated with that obtained in the other language ...other ...
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Language Proficiency of Bilingual Learners
... stronger language of only three (3) bilingual ...similar proficiency in both languages (hereafter French and English) doesn‟t depend on the learner‟s exposure under the bilingual ...
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Using parental questionnaires to investigate the heritage language proficiency of bilingual children
... heritage language might have sufficient validity to enable education professionals to use these as a first pass when deciding whether to refer a child for speech and language ...of language in ...
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Spanish language proficiency in bilingual providers
... with language spoken at a normal speed by watching and summarizing TV news and current affairs programs, documentaries, live interviews, talk shows, plays, and ...spontaneously from the prepared text as ...
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Relating input factors and dual language proficiency in French-English bilingual children
... dominant language and variables related to language use in research question 3 did not indicate causality, they showed fairly convincingly that the dominant language was a reliable indicator of the ...
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Predicting the Difficulty of Language Proficiency Tests
... character-based language model that indicates the probability of a character sequence us- ing BerkeleyLM (Pauls and Klein, ...words from the Basic English list in order to reflect the knowledge of a ...
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The influence of proficiency and language combination on bilingual lexical access
... other language combinations (p < ...between Proficiency and Performance Thirteen participants were dropped from the analysis of proficiency due to missing ...the language use ...
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Individual differences in the production of referential expressions: The effect of language proficiency, language exposure and executive function in bilingual and monolingual children
... these children is the complexity of the preamble sentence, as discourse competitors were introduced in the by-phrase of a passive ...English-speaking children have some difficulties with full passives into ...
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Language Proficiency and Academic Success of Bilingual Hispanic Nursing Students
... obtained from this research ...of language proficiency among bilingual students, not only in the area of nursing, but of other health care related ...the language role, not only in the ...
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Biliteracy effects on phonological awareness, oral language proficiency and reading skills in Taiwanese Mandarin-English bilingual children
... Graded Chinese Character Recognition Test. This standardized test contained 200 Chinese characters (Huang, 2001). Characters were listed according to frequency in print and strokes to form the character, from ...
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A study of bilingual children reading in a second language
... second language can only be assessed by a long term, fact-finding programme of ...oral language or reading might, therefore, not only reassure the mainstream teacher that any departure from the ...
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Reading Language of Bilingual Children and Its Characteristics
... this language is more natural to her and she better controls ...that children choose their own books and that they "prefer French-language books, they have a lot of them at ...his children to ...
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The relationship between language proficiency and attentional control in Cantonese-English bilingual children: Evidence from Simon, Simon Switching, and working memory tasks
... the bilingual advantage may better be explained by a dynamic combination of proac- tive (monitoring) and reactive (inhibition) control mechanisms, akin to Braver’s (2012) dual-mechanism framework of cognitive ...
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The Effect of Dual-Language and Transitional-Bilingual Education Instructional Models on Spanish Proficiency for English Language Learners
... primary language for some part of daily instruction in half-day pre-Kindergarten ...selected from those identified as serving mainly non-English speaking ...were bilingual (12 Spanish and one ...
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Predicting lexical proficiency in language learner texts using computational indices
... written language in which there is less lexical ...benefit from additional lexical ...lexical proficiency were not included in this study because they have not been computationally ...collocational ...
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Parents and Children Talk: The Family Dynamics of English Language Proficiency
... dominant language fluency used in this study is based in large part on earlier work done by Chiswick and ...Thus, proficiency in English is related to variables for age, years of educational attainment, the ...
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Young bilingual children learning to read with dual language books
... children’s language and ...any language for Lek and Durkan, but they practised sophisticated strategies and discovered the pleasures and advantages of a collaborative approach, as well as the rewards of ...
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Input factors, language experiences and metalinguistic awareness in bilingual children
... Figure 7.3 Child's language strategies to mother from birth according to parents by family profile. 12[r] ...
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Developmental changes associated with cross language similarity in bilingual children
... the bilingual participants. The younger the children were, the greater facilitation effects along the cognate status continuum were found, and these results were replicated in both translation ...younger ...
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Cognate facilitation effects in bilingual children of varying language dominance
... other bilingual studies, vary greatly in how bilingualism is defined and ...include proficiency, age of acquisition, frequency of use, and exposure (Pienemann & Kessler, ...include language ...
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