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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 – Child Development, 1986
Investigates the metalinguistic ability of monolingual or bilingual children between five and nine years of age on two language tasks (grammaticality judgment and correction). (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bilingualism, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development
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Bialystok, Ellen – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1987
The development of the concept of word is discussed in terms of specific advantages that might be available to bilingual children when compared with their monolingual peers. Three studies are reviewed in which bilingual children show more advanced understanding of some aspects of the concept of word than do monolingual children (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis