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Emergent Literacy Skills in Bilingual Children: Evidence for the Role of L1 Syntactic Comprehension
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Gabriele, Alison; Troseth, Erika; Martohardjono, Gita; Otheguy, Ricardo – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2009
The study examines emergent literacy skills in a group of young English Language Learners who are dominant in their native language, Spanish. We investigate the relative contribution of syntactic comprehension in the L1 and L2 to the development of emergent reading skills in English. Participants were bilingual kindergarteners from two public…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Emergent Literacy, Reading Skills, Bilingualism