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Cross-Language Distance Influences Receptive Vocabulary Outcomes of Bilingual Children
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Blom, Elma; Boerma, Tessel; Bosma, Evelyn; Cornips, Leonie; van den Heuij, Kirsten; Timmermeister, Mona – First Language, 2020
Various studies have shown that bilingual children score lower than their monolingual peers on standardized receptive vocabulary tests. This study investigates if this effect is moderated by language distance. Dutch receptive vocabulary was tested with the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT). The impact of cross-language distance was examined…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Bilingualism, At Risk Students, Vocabulary Development
Verb inflection in Monolingual Dutch and Sequential Bilingual Turkish-Dutch Children with and without SLI
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Blom, Elma; De Jong, Jan; Orgassa, Antje; Baker, Anne; Weerman, Fred – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2013
Both children with specific language impairment (SLI) and children who acquire a second language (L2) make errors with verb inflection. This overlap between SLI and L2 raises the question if verb inflection can discriminate between L2 children with and without SLI. In this study we addressed this question for Dutch. The secondary goal of the study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Impairments, Children, Verbs