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Pace, Amy; Luo, Rufan; Levine, Dani; Iglesias, Aquiles; de Villiers, Jill; Golinkoff, Roberta M.; Wilson, Mary S.; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy – Child Development, 2021
This study investigated the relation between Dual Language Learners' (N = 90) vocabulary and grammar comprehension and word learning processes in preschool (aged 3-through-5 years). Of interest was whether: (a) performance in Spanish correlated with performance in English within each domain; and (b) comprehension predicted novel word learning…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Bilingual Students, Vocabulary Development, Grammar
Pace, Amy; Luo, Rufan; Levine, Dani; Iglesias, Aquiles; de Villiers, Jill; Golinkoff, Roberta M.; Wilson, Mary S.; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy – Grantee Submission, 2020
This study investigated the relation between Dual Language Learners' (N = 90) vocabulary and grammar comprehension and word learning processes in preschool (aged 3-through-5 years). Of interest was whether: (1) performance in Spanish correlated with performance in English within each domain; and (2) comprehension predicted novel word learning…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Bilingual Students, Vocabulary Development, Grammar
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Castilla-Earls, Anny; Francis, David; Iglesias, Aquiles; Davidson, Kevin – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: The general aim of this study is to enhance our understanding of the patterns of language growth in Spanish and English during the school years. In this study, we used a longitudinal retrospective approach to explore the growth of the percentage of grammatical utterances (PGU) in both Spanish and English in 2 groups of English learners…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, English Language Learners, Bilingual Education, Kindergarten
Luo, Rufan; Pace, Amy; Levine, Dani; Iglesias, Aquiles; de Villiers, Jill; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Wilson, Mary Sweig; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy – Grantee Submission, 2021
Children learning two languages (Dual Language Learners; DLLs) represent a rapidly growing population in the United States. DLLs are disproportionately more likely to live in families of low socioeconomic status (SES), which places many of them at risk for poor dual-language outcomes. To date, most studies on SES and dual language development have…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English Language Learners, Spanish, Learning Processes
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Gatlin-Nash, Brandy; Peña, Elizabeth D.; Bedore, Lisa M.; Simon-Cereijido, Gabriela; Iglesias, Aquiles – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This study examined the use of African American English (AAE) among a group of young Latinx bilingual children and the accuracy of the English Morphosyntax subtest of the Bilingual English-Spanish Assessment (BESA) in classifying these children with and without developmental language disorder (DLD). Method: Children (N = 81) between the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Heilmann, John J.; Rojas, Raúl; Iglesias, Aquiles; Miller, Jon F. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2016
Background: Language sampling, recognized as a gold standard for expressive language assessment, is often elicited using wordless picture storybooks. A series of wordless storybooks, commonly referred to as "Frog" stories, have been frequently used in language-based research with children from around the globe. Aims: To examine the…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Story Telling, Story Reading, Comparative Analysis