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What's in a Word? Cross-Linguistic Influences on Spanish-English and Chinese-English Bilingual Children's Word Reading Development
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Sun, Xin; Zhang, Kehui; Marks, Rebecca A.; Nickerson, Nia; Eggleston, Rachel L.; Yu, Chi-Lin; Chou, Tai-Li; Tardif, Twila; Kovelman, Ioulia – Child Development, 2022
This study investigates the cross-linguistic transfer of literacy skills in Spanish-English, Chinese-English bilingual, and English monolingual children (N = 283, 5-10 years). Research question 1 examines English literacy and asks how phonological and morpho-semantic skills contribute to word reading as a function of children's language…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Skills, Bilingualism, Transfer of Training
Simultaneous Acquisition of English and Chinese Impacts Children's Reliance on Vocabulary, Morphological and Phonological Awareness for Reading in English
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Hsu, Lucy Shih-Ju; Ip, Ka I.; Arredondo, Maria M.; Tardif, Twila; Kovelman, Ioulia – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
The developmental process of reading acquisition is frequently conceptualized as a self-organizing mental network consisting of lexico-semantic, phonological and orthographical components. The developmental nature of this network varies across languages and is known to impact second-language learners of typologically different languages. Yet, it…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese