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Hipfner-Boucher, Kathleen; Pasquarella, Adrian; Prasad, Sonal; Chen, Xi – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Our 1-year longitudinal study tracked the development of cognate awareness among second (L2) and third language (L3) learners of French in French immersion in Grades 1 and 2 to explore the impact of orthographic overlap and cognate status (true vs. false) on children's ability to recognize cognate relationships. We also assessed the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, French, Immersion Programs, Elementary School Students
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Xu, Chang; Di Lonardo Burr, Sabrina; Skwarchuk, Sheri-Lynn; Douglas, Heather; Lafay, Anne; Osana, Helena P.; Simms, Victoria; Wylie, Judith; Maloney, Erin A.; LeFevre, Jo-Anne – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Canadian students enrolled in either French-immersion or English-instruction programs were followed from Grades 2 to 3 (M[subscript age] = 7.8 years to 8.9 years; N = 244; 55% girls). In each grade, students completed two mathematical tasks that required oral language processing (i.e., word-problem solving and number transcoding from dictation)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immersion Programs, French, English
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Pasquarella, Adrian; Deacon, Helene; Chen, Becky X.; Commissaire, Eva; Au-Yeung, Karen – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2014
This study examined the within-language and cross-language relationships between orthographic processing and word reading in French and English across Grades 1 and 2. Seventy-three children in French Immersion completed measures of orthographic processing and word reading in French and English in Grade 1 and Grade 2, as well as a series of control…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Reading, French, English
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Hipfner-Boucher, Kathleen; Pasquarella, Adrian; Chen, Xi; Deacon, S. Hélène – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2016
Cognate awareness is the ability to recognize the cognate relationship between words in two etymologically related languages. The current study examined the development of cognate awareness and its contribution to French (second language) reading comprehension among Canadian French immersion children. Eighty-one students were tested at the end of…
Descriptors: French, Immersion Programs, Grade 2, Elementary School Students