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Bilingual Development in the Receptive and Expressive Domains: They Differ
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Giguere, David; Hoff, Erika – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
In bilingual children, more so than in monolingual children, comprehension abilities exceed production abilities. While this receptive-expressive gap in bilinguals has been well documented, little is known about its development. The present study tracked growth in the Spanish and English receptive and expressive vocabularies of 52 bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Receptive Language, Expressive Language
Receptive Dual-Language Profiles in Spanish-English Bilingual Preschoolers
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Pumpki Lei Su; Raúl Rojas; Jill de Villiers; Roberta Golinkoff; Aquiles Iglesias – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Bilingual children demonstrate varying levels of proficiency in each of the two languages to which they are exposed. Even though it is widely acknowledged that bilingual children are not a homogenous group, existing studies on dual-language profiles in bilingual children have focused on expressive language profiles. In this study, we used the…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Bilingualism, Spanish, English (Second Language)
Testing the Interface Hypothesis: Heritage Speakers' Perception and Production of Spanish Subject Position with Unergative and Unaccusative Verbs
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Gondra, Ager – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The Interface Hypothesis proposes that the pragmatic-discursive interface with syntax is more vulnerable to crosslinguistic influence than the syntactic-semantic interface [Tsimpli, Ianthi, and Antonella Sorace. 2006. "Differentiating Interfaces: L2 Performance in Syntax- Semantics and Syntax-Discourse Phenomena." In Proceedings of the…
Descriptors: Verbs, Spanish, Linguistic Theory, Task Analysis
Language and the Second Generation: Bilingualism Yesterday and Today.
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Portes, Alejandro; Schauffler, Richard – International Migration Review, 1994
Explores the extent of language transition and the resilience of immigrant languages based on data from south Florida. Results from 2,843 children of immigrants show that interest in and preference for English is very high and that preservation of the parental language decays with length of U.S. residence. Relationships of bilingualism and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Students, Economically Disadvantaged, English (Second Language)
E Pluribus Unum: Bilingualism and Loss of Language in the Second Generation.
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Portes, Alejandro; Hao, Lingxin – Sociology of Education, 1998
Examines patterns of language adaptation by second-generation students in south Florida and southern California. Finds that among most immigrant nationalities, knowledge of and preference for English is nearly universal, that only a minority remain fluent in their parents' languages, and that there are wide variations among immigrants. (DSK)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Elementary Secondary Education
Children's Learning of Number and Numeration Concepts. A Final Report.
Coffland, Jack A.; Cuevas, Gilbert J. – 1979
A study was conducted to examine the learning of mathematical concepts by English dominant and Spanish dominant primary school children. The concepts considered were number, numeration, and computational procedures. Using the case study method, a three step procedure was designed to study individual math objectives: (1) objectives were first…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Bilingual Students, Cognitive Development, Computation