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Direct linkDixon, L. Quentin – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2011
Research in monolingual populations indicate that vocabulary knowledge is essential to reading achievement, but how vocabulary develops in bilingual children has been understudied. The current study investigated the role of home and school factors in predicting English vocabulary among 284 bilingual kindergartners (168 Chinese, 65 Malay, 51…
Descriptors: Mothers, Family Income, Reading Achievement, Vocabulary
Dixon, L. Quentin – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2010
To examine the relationship between phonological awareness (PA) and English word-level reading among a multilingual sample, a random sample of 297 Singaporean kindergartners, stratified by ethnicity (169 Chinese, 65 Malay, and 63 Indian), were tested on their PA, receptive vocabulary, and word-level reading skills. Singaporean kindergartners are…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Multilingualism, Phonological Awareness, Monolingualism
