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Roberts, Jenny A.; Scott, Kathleen A. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2009
Research on the language development of internationally adopted children has increased substantially in the past few years, with a variety of methods used to measure language abilities in this population, including parent and teacher reports, norm-referenced tests, conversational and narrative language samples, and other procedures. These…
Descriptors: Intervention, Language Impairments, Adoption, Language Acquisition
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Peter, Lizette; Hirata-Edds, Tracy E. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2006
Language loss is a concern for the Cherokee Nation in northeastern Oklahoma. As part of language revitalisation efforts, in 2001 Cherokee Nation opened the Cherokee Immersion Preschool in which teachers use only Cherokee throughout the day with their monolingual English-speaking students. Based on a study of the Immersion Preschool that spanned…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Language Skill Attrition, Language Skills, Immersion Programs