ERIC Number: EJ1296308
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 21
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1367-0050
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Phonological Vulnerability for School-Aged Spanish-English-Speaking Bilingual Children
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, v24 n5 p736-756 2021
This study examined accuracy on syllable-final (coda) consonants in newly-learned English-like nonwords to determine whether school-aged bilingual children may be more vulnerable to making errors on English-only codas than their monolingual, English-speaking peers, even at a stage in development when phonological accuracy in productions of familiar words is high. Bilingual Spanish-English-speaking second-graders (age 7-9) with typical development (n = 40) were matched individually with monolingual peers on age, sex, and speech skills. Participants learned to name sea monsters as part of five computerized word learning tasks. Dependent t-tests revealed bilingual children were less accurate than monolingual children in producing codas unique to English; however, the groups demonstrated equivalent levels of accuracy on codas that occur in both Spanish and English. Results suggest that, even at high levels of English proficiency, bilingual Spanish-English-speaking children may demonstrate lower accuracy than their monolingual English-speaking peers on targets that pattern differently in their two languages. Differences between a bilingual's two languages can be used to reveal targets that may be more vulnerable to error, which could be a result of cross-linguistic effects or more limited practice with English phonology.
Descriptors: Accuracy, Phonology, Syllables, Bilingualism, Spanish, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Monolingualism, Error Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Age Differences, Gender Differences, Speech Communication, Vocabulary Development, Task Analysis, Language Patterns, Reading Tests, Language Tests, Articulation (Speech), Speech Tests, Children, Intelligence Tests, Expressive Language
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Test of Word Reading Efficiency; Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals; Goldman Fristoe Test of Articulation; Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children
Grant or Contract Numbers: R01DC010784