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Direct linkSchwartz, Mila; Moin, Victor; Leikin, Mark – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2012
This study focused on the role of bilingual versus monolingual preschool education in the development of lexical knowledge in Russian (L1) and Hebrew (L2) among second-generation Russian-Hebrew speaking immigrants in Israel. The study was designed as a longitudinal and comparative study. The lexical knowledge of children was measured three times…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Speech Communication, Preschool Education, Semantics
Schwartz, Mila; Kozminsky, Ely; Leikin, Mark – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2009
The objective of this study was to evaluate the first language (L1) vocabulary knowledge in a large-scale sample (n = 70) of second-generation Russian-Jewish immigrants in Israel. The interest in this research population follows from the unique demographic, sociocultural, linguistic, and psychological distinctiveness of RJ immigration in Israel.…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Jews, Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development
Leikin, Mark; Share, David L.; Schwartz, Mila – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2005
The present study examined factors that influence the process of learning to read in a second language. The Hebrew reading comprehension skills of 68 Russian-speaking children (mean age 7 years 6 months) were screened at the start of Grade 2. From this sample, 40 participants were selected: 20 successful learners and 20 unsuccessful learners.…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Russian, Reading Difficulties, Learning Processes
