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Luk, Gigi; Bialystok, Ellen – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
The study explores the relationship between phonological awareness and early reading for bilingual children learning to read in two languages that use different writing systems. Participants were 57 Cantonese-English bilingual 6-year-olds who were learning to read in both languages. The children completed cognitive measures, phonological awareness…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Phonological Awareness, Factor Analysis, English
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Bialystok, Ellen – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1988
Testing of eight-year-olds (N=159) with a battery of metalinguistic tasks, intelligence, and reading comprehension tests indicated that the relation among performance on metalinguistic tasks was strongest for those tasks relying on the same processing skill component. One of these components was most significant in determining the child's level of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Processing, Language Skills, Language Usage