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Narrative Abilities of Monolingual and Bilingual Children with and without Language Impairment: Implications for Clinical Practice
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Boerma, Tessel; Leseman, Paul; Timmermeister, Mona; Wijnen, Frank; Blom, Elma – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2016
Background: Understanding and expressing a narrative's macro-structure is relatively independent of experience in a specific language. A narrative task is therefore assumed to be a less biased method of language assessment for bilingual children than many other norm-referenced tests and may thus be particularly valuable to identify language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Young Children, Monolingualism, Language Skills
Grammatical Morphology in Monolingual and Bilingual Children with and without Language Impairment: The Case of Dutch Plurals and Past Participles
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Boerma, Tessel; Wijnen, Frank; Leseman, Paul; Blom, Elma – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: Grammatical morphology is often a locus of difficulty for both children with language impairment (LI) and bilingual children. In contrast to previous research that mainly focused on verbal tense and agreement markings, the present study investigated whether plural and past participle formation can disentangle the effects of LI and…
Descriptors: Grammar, Morphology (Languages), Monolingualism, Bilingualism