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Elena Gandolfi; Giovanna Diotallevi; Paola Viterbori – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: This study examined the language and nonverbal inhibitory control skills of Italian monolingual and bilingual typically developing (TD) preschoolers with Italian as their second language and of age-matched monolingual and bilingual peers with developmental language disorder (DLD). Method: Four groups of preschoolers were enrolled: 30 TD…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Inhibition, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
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Barry H. Schneider; Mara Manetti; Nadia Rania; José Manuel Tomas; Amparo Oliver; Robert J. Coplan; Quinlan Taylor – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
The goal of this study was to track the progress of Italian children at risk for school failure enrolled in preschools based on the Reggio-Emilia approach. Risk factors considered included family socioeconomic status (SES), child receptive language, and child gender. Participants were 211 children (Mage = 60.8 months, 116 girls) in Reggio-inspired…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Preschool Children, Elementary School Students
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Valentina Persici; Tamara Bastianello; Erika Hoff; Marinella Majorano – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2025
The role of children's receptive vocabulary knowledge in word and nonword reading (decoding) in an orthographically transparent language is debated. Moreover, we have little understanding of how the role of vocabulary might differ between monolingual children and bilingual children from immigrant families (or language minority bilingual children…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Vocabulary Development, Reading Skills, Monolingualism