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Direct linkBedore, Lisa M.; Pena, Elizabeth D.; Griffin, Zenzi M.; Hixon, J. Gregory – Journal of Child Language, 2016
This study evaluates the effects of Age of Exposure to English (AoEE) and Current Input/Output on language performance in a cross-sectional sample of Spanish-English bilingual children. First- (N = 586) and third-graders (N = 298) who spanned a wide range of bilingual language experience participated. Parents and teachers provided information…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 3, Language Acquisition
Sheng, Li; Bedore, Lisa M.; Pena, Elizabeth D.; Taliancich-Klinger, Casey – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: To examine the degree of convergence in word association responses produced by bilingual children with primary language impairment (PLI) in relation to bilingual age peers. Method: Thirty-seven Spanish-English bilingual children with PLI, 37 typically developing (TD) controls, and a normative sample of 112 children produced associations…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Children, Language Impairments, Comparative Analysis
Greene, Kai J.; Pena, Elizabeth D.; Bedore, Lisa M. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2013
This study examined single-word code-mixing produced by bilingual preschoolers in order to better understand lexical choice patterns in each language. Analysis included item-level code-mixed responses of 606 five-year-old children. Per parent report, children were separated by language dominance based on language exposure and use. Children were…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Impairments, Language Acquisition, Bilingualism
Bedore, Lisa M.; Pena, Elizabeth D.; Summers, Connie L.; Boerger, Karin M.; Resendiz, Maria D.; Greene, Kai; Bohman, Thomas M.; Gillam, Ronald B. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
The purpose of this study was to determine if different language measures resulted in the same classifications of language dominance and proficiency for a group of bilingual pre-kindergarteners and kindergarteners. Data were analyzed for 1029 Spanish-English bilingual pre-kindergarteners who spanned the full range of bilingual language…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Semantics, Monolingualism, Language Proficiency
Bedore, Lisa M.; Pena, Elizabeth D.; Joyner, Debbie; Macken, Candace – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2011
Educators of young children, including speech-language pathologists, are often uncertain as to how to effectively work with children from diverse backgrounds because they do not know enough about cultural and linguistic diversity and its impact on language development. The current study helps to address this gap by examining the validity of parent…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Child Language, Speech Language Pathology, Parent Attitudes
Bedore, Lisa M.; Fiestas, Christine E.; Pena, Elizabeth D.; Nagy, Vanessa J. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2006
Maze use appears to be higher in bilingual speakers than in their functionally monolingual peers. One question is whether this is due to the speaker's bilingual status or to the characteristics of the bilingual's language(s). Narratives for 22 Spanish-English bilingual 4-6-year-olds and their functionally monolingual age-matched peers were…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Role, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
