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Castilla-Earls, Anny; Ronderos, Juliana; Francis, David J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: This study aimed to examine changes in English and Spanish morphosyntactic standardized scores over time in bilingual children. Method: One hundred bilingual children participated in this longitudinal study. The average age of the children at the beginning of the study was 5;11 (years; months). A subset of the participants was identified…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Morphology (Languages), Language Proficiency, Bilingualism
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Miller, Jon F.; Heilmann, John; Nockerts, Ann; Iglesias, Aquiles; Fabiano, Leah; Francis, David J. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2006
This article examines the question: Do lexical, syntactic, fluency, and discourse measures of oral language collected under narrative conditions predict reading achievement both within and across languages for bilingual children? More than 1,500 Spanish-English bilingual children attending kindergarten-third grade participated. Oral narratives…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Oral Reading, Bilingual Students, Spanish